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Father Sodiro's Dracula

Dracula sodiroi

Father Sodiro's Dracula
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY 2.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte, Orchid
Native range
NW. & NC. Ecuador
Climate
wet tropical

About

Dracula sodiroi is a species of orchid. It is an epiphyte and grows in wet tropical areas of north-western and northern Ecuador.

The specific epithet of sodiroi refers to Luis Sodiro (1836–1909), who was an Italian Jesuit priest and a field botanist, who collected many plants in Ecuador.

Other Dracula plants

Dracula bella · Dracula benedicti · Frog's Skin · Chimera Dracula · Dracula cochliops · Dracula cordobae · Dracula diabola · Dracula diana · Dracula felix · Dracula gigas · Dracula gorgona · Dracula houtteana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dracula sodiroi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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