The black dracula (Dracula ubangina)
Description
Found in northwestern Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1800 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, thinly coriaceous, carinate, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, indistinct, petiolate, base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a horizontal to descending, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, loose, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying a tubular, oblique floral bract.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Asparagales
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Family: Orchidaceae
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Genus: Dracula
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