Dracula diabola
| Dracula diabola | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Tribe: | Epidendreae |
| Subtribe: | Pleurothallidinae |
| Genus: | Dracula |
| Species: | D. diabola |
| Binomial name | |
| Dracula diabola Luer & R.Escobar | |
Dracula diabola is a species of orchid that only grows in a single valley in the Departmento de Boyarca, northeast of Bogotá, Colombia. Its specific epithet, diabola, comes from diabolus, the Latin word for devil. The plant is an epiphyte growing at an altitude of 2200-2600 m in the Eastern Cordillera. [1][2] [3]
References
- ↑ Bonine, Paul. Black Plants: 75 Striking Choices for the Garden, Timber Press, 2009, p. 64.
- ↑ Luer & R. Escobar 1979. Orquideologia Vol 13 No 2
- ↑ Luer, C. A. 1993. Icones Pleurothallidinarum---X. Systematics of Dracula (Orchidaceae). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 46: 1–244.
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