Dracula diabola

Dracula diabola
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 Boyacá Department, 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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[1] Bonine, Paul. Black Plants: 75 Striking Choices for the Garden, Timber Press, 2009, p. 64.

[2] Luer & R. Escobar 1979. Orquideologia Vol 13 No 2

[3] Luer, C. A. 1993. Icones Pleurothallidinarum---X. Systematics of Dracula (Orchidaceae). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 46: 1–244.