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Orchid Species: Dracula wallisii

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Dracula wallisii is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Luer in 1978.
Genus
Dracula (Drac.)
Grex
wallisii
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Rchb.f.) Luer
Year
1978
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ORIGIN: A Colombian species of the central cordillera at elevations of 1600 to 2800 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, subplicate, elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, indistinct, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on a stout, horizontal to descending, 8.8 to 14 [22 to 35 cm] long, loose, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying a tubular floral bract and has a hinged movable lip otherwise very similar to D chimaera.

FLOWER SIZE: 2 x 10 inches [5 x 25 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Dracula Drac burbidgeana 1978 (Rolfe) Luer
Add+ Masdevallia Masd burbidgeana 1893 Rolfe
Add+ Masdevallia Masd wallisii 1875 Rchb.f.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Drac. wallisii 'D & B' (1989) Drac. wallisii 'Rolfe's Celebration' (1988) Drac. wallisii 'Sunset Tarantula' (1987) Masd. chimaera var. wallisii 'Carlos' (1973)
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