Dracula mendozae

 Dracula mendozae Luer & V.N.M.Rao, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 95: 234 (fig. 3) (2004).

Dracula mendozae Luer & V.N.M.Rao, Photo by Wolf Wanninger

its native range is Ecuador (Zamora-Chinchipe).

Latinh Name: 

Dracula mendozae Luer & V.N.M.Rao

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

Mendoza's Dracula (Panamanian cocolletor of species late 1900's).

Description: 

With stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, narrowly linear, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a more or less horizontal to descending, 10 to 30 cm long, congested, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a few bracts and a tubular floral bract.

Distribution:

Ecuador.

Ecological:

As a small sized epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the winter.

Flower size:

5.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Climate: Intermediate Cool

Air Circulation: Medium

Light: Low

Humidity: Medium

Fertilizer: Monthly

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in cold to cool conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

Type:

Collector Team:

V. N. M. Rao 130

Locality:

no data available

Type Herbaria:

holotype MO

Distribution Of Types:

Zamora-Chinchipe (Ecuador, Western South America, Southern America)