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Dracula minax (Dracula minax)

Description

Found in Antioquia Colombia as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphtye with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, narrowly obovate, subacute gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a stout, horizontal to descending, 6.4 to 10" 16 to 25 cm long, lax, several to many flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, sparsely bracted and carrying a tubular florral bract

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Asparagales

            • Family: Orchidaceae

              • Genus: Dracula