Finding
SITF has determined that this plant is not Dracula ripleyana (Jun 2025), but likely of hybrid origin. It has simliar attributes to D. hirsuta, but the lip form with the four distinctive cavities in the half oval lip does not look like D. hirsuta or D. ripleyana. Also, D. ripleyana is not as hirsute as is this flower. Most photos show D. ripleyana as nearly glabrous compared to this plant.
Overall Length Of Growth Cane: 27.1
Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 1
Leaf Length: 27.1
Leaf Width: 2.1
Leaf Margin: entire
Leaf Shape: lanceolate
Leaf Petiole Length: 1.0
Pseudobulb Distance: 0.2
Pseudobulb Root Tip: green
Inflorescence Overall Length: 20.3
Inflorescence Arrangement: sequential
Inflorescence Dist Base To Bud: 14.2
Inflorescence Dist Bet Flowers: 5.9
Inflorescence Dist To Sepal: 1.3
Floral Bracts Length: 1.1
Floral Bracts Width: 0.1
Ovary Length: 0.6
Ovary Width: 0.2
Ovary Shape: cylindrical, curved at pedicel
Ovary Color: green, striped deep red purple
Ovary Texture: smooth
Flower Natural Spread Length: 12.5
Flower Natural Spread Width: 6.5
Dorsal Sepal Length: 1.1
Dorsal Sepal Width: 1.4
Dorsal Sepal Cauda Length: 5.0
Dorsal Sepal Cauda Width: 0.1
Lateral Sepals Length: 1.4
Lateral Sepals Width: 1.2
Lateral Sepals Caudae Length: 5.9
Lateral Sepals Caudae Width: 0.1
Petals Width: 0.1
Judging Center: Carolina's Judging Center
Award Number: 20252417
Award Date: April 19, 2025
Awarded As: AM
Vendor: EcuageneraReferences: IOSPEAward Description:Six flowers and 8 buds on 29 sequential inflorescences, some decumbent, others arching; sepals white, pubescent, stippled burgundy distally, leaving a central halo, caudae erect, burgundy; petals minute, white with burgundy spot apically, burgundy stripes basally; lip white, hinged and sharply cupped, 3 keels, inner rim dentate; column and anther cap white; substance moderate; texture crystalline; judges noted that flowers were partially dehydrated upon photographing and caudae were no longer straight.
