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Dracula cordobae is a species of orchid found in the montane cloud forest of south western Ecuador at elevations of 750 to 1000 meters.[1]

Dracula cordobae
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Genus:	Dracula
Species:	D. cordobae
Binomial name
Dracula cordobae Luer 1979

Description

It is a medium-sized orchid, with an epiphyte habit and with very short ramicaules basally wrapped by 2 to 3 acuminate tubular sheaths and bearing a single, apical, narrowly obovate leaf that is conduplicated below the petiole. It blooms in a lateral inflorescence, from the base of the ramicaule, with successively a single flower that heads below the plant.

Taxonomy

The type species was discovered by Sr. Clever Córdova in El Oro, Ecuador at 800 meters, July 19, 1979 and described in the journal Selbyana by Carlyle A. Luer

References

External links

• Media related to Dracula cordobae at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Dracula cordobae at Wikispecies

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