page_title: Dracula (plant)
section_title: Taxonomy
hierarchical_section_title: Dracula (plant) / Taxonomy
caption_attribution_description: English: Profile of a Dracula olmosii bloom grown in a terrarium.
context_page_description: The orchid genus Dracula, abbreviated as Drac in horticultural trade, consists of 118 species native to Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The name Dracula literally means "little dragon", an allusion to the mythical Count Dracula, a lead character in numerous vampire novels and films. The name was applied to the orchid because of the blood-red color of several of the species, the strange aspect of the long spurs of the sepals.
  The plants were once included in the genus Masdevallia, but became a separate genus in 1978. This genus has been placed in the subtribe Pleurothallidinae.
context_section_description: The species of Dracula have tentatively been divided into three subgenera, with sections and subsections within one of the subgenera.
  Subgenus Dracula : This subgenus contains all the species of the genus except two exceptional species (D. sodiroi and D. xenos)
  Section Andreettaea : Monotypic: Dracula andreettae
  Section Chestertonia : two species: Dracula chestertonii, D. cutis-bufonis
  Section Cochliopsia : Monotypic: Dracula cochliops
  Section Dodsonia : Four species: Dracula dodsonii, D. insolita, D. iricolor, D. portillae
  Section Dracula : largest section
  Subsection Costatae : e.g. Dracula bella, D. vespertilio
  Subsection Dracula :
  Series Dracula : e.g. Dracula chimaera, D. tubeana, D. vampira
  Series Grandiflorae-Parvilabiatae : e.g. Dracula gigas, D. platycrater
  Series Parviflorae : e.g. Dracula houtteana, D. lotax
  Subgenus Sodiroa : Two Dracula sodiroi, D. erythrocodon
  Subgenus Xenosia : Monotypic : Dracula xenos
  Dracula adrianae (Colombia).
  Dracula alcithoe (SW. Colombia to NE. Ecuador).
  Dracula amaliae (W. Colombia).
  Dracula andreettae (W. Colombia to NE. Ecuador).
  Dracula anthracina (NW. Colombia).
  Dracula antonii (Colombia).
  Dracula aphrodes (W. Colombia.
  Dracula astuta (Costa Rica).
  Dracula barrowii (Peru).
  Dracula bella (WC. Colombia).
  Dracula bellerophon (W. Colombia).
  Dracula benedictii (WC. Colombia.
  Dracula berthae (Colombia).
  Dracula brangeri (C. Colombia).
  Dracula callithrix  (Colombia) - new species 2009 -
  Dracula carcinopsis (W. Colombia).
  Dracula carlueri (Costa Rica).
  Dracula chestertonii (W. Colombia).
  Dracula chimaera (W. Colombia).
  Dracula chiroptera (SW. Colombia to NE. Ecuador).
  Dracula christineana (Ecuador).
  Dracula circe (Colombia).
  Dracula citrina (Colombia).
  Dracula cochliops (SW. Colombia).
  Dracula cordobae (SW. Ecuador).
  Dracula cutis-bufonis (NW. Colombia).
  Dracula dalessandroi (SE. Ecuador).
  Dracula dalstroemii (NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula decussata (Colombia).
  Dracula deltoidea (SE. Ecuador).
  Dracula deniseana (Peru.
  Dracula diabola (Colombia).
  Dracula diana (W. Colombia).
  Dracula dodsonii (Colombia to NC. Ecuador)
  Dracula erythrochaete (Costa Rica to W. Panama).
  Dracula erythrocodon (Ecuador)
  Dracula exasperata ( SW. Colombia.
  Dracula fafnir (SE. Ecuador).
  Dracula felix (SW. Colombia to NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula fuligifera (C. Ecuador).
  Dracula gastrophora (Ecuador).
  Dracula gigas (W. Colombia to NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula gorgona (W. Colombia)
  Dracula gorgonella (Colombia)
  Dracula hawleyi (NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula hirsuta (SE. Ecuador).
  Dracula hirtzii (SW. Colombia to NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula houtteana (Colombia).
  Dracula immunda (Panama).
  Dracula inaequalis (W. Colombia).
  Dracula incognita (Colombia).
  Dracula inexperata (Costa Rica).
  Dracula insolita (W. Colombia).
  Dracula janetiae (C. Peru)
  Dracula kareniae (Ecuador).
  Dracula lafleurii (NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula lehmanniana (SW. Colombia).
  Dracula lemurella (Colombia).
  Dracula leonum (Peru).
  Dracula levii (SW. Colombia to NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula ligiae (Colombia).
  Dracula lindstroemii (NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula lotax (Ecuador).
  Dracula mantissa (SW. Colombia to NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula marsupialis (NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula mendozae Luer & V.N.M.Rao (Ecuador)
  Dracula minax (Colombia).
  Dracula mopsus (Ecuador.
  Dracula morleyi (NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula navarrorum (Ecuador).
  Dracula nigritella (Ecuador).
  Dracula nosferatu (Colombia).
  Dracula nycterina (Colombia).
  Dracula octavioi (SW. Colombia.
  Dracula olmosii (Panama).
  Dracula ophioceps (SW. Colombia).
  Dracula orientalis (NE. Colombia).
  Dracula ortiziana (W. Colombia).
  Dracula papillosa (NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula pholeodytes (NE. Colombia).
  Dracula pileus (W. Colombia).
  Dracula platycrater (Colombia.
  Dracula polyphemus (NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula portillae (SE. Ecuador).
  Dracula posadarum (Colombia).
  Dracula presbys (Colombia).
  Dracula psittacina (Colombia).
  Dracula psyche (NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula pubescens (Ecuador).
  Dracula pusilla (SE. Mexico to C. America)
  Dracula radiella (NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula radiosa (E. Colombia to NW. Ecuador).
  Dracula rezekiana (Ecuador).
  Dracula ripleyana (Costa Rica).
  Dracula robledorum (Colombia)
  Dracula 
caption: Dracula olmosii
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