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|image = Dracula diabola Orchi 13.jpg
|image = Dracula diabola Orchi 13.jpg
|genus = Dracula
|regnum = [[Plantae]]
|species = diabola
|unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]]
|authority = [[Carlyle A. Luer|Luer]] & [[Rodrigo Escobar|R.Escobar]]
|unranked_classis = [[Monocots]]
|ordo = [[Asparagales]]
|familia = [[Orchidaceae]]
|subfamilia = [[Epidendroideae]]
|tribus = [[Epidendreae]]
|subtribus = [[Pleurothallidinae]]
|genus = ''[[Dracula orchid|Dracula]]''
|species = '''''D. diabola'''''
|binomial = ''Dracula diabola''
|binomial_authority = [[Carlyle A. Luer|Luer]] & [[Rodrigo Escobar|R.Escobar]]
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'''''Dracula diabola''''' is a species of [[orchid]] that only grows in a single valley in the Departmento de Boyarca, 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. <ref>Bonine, Paul. ''Black Plants: 75 Striking Choices for the Garden'', Timber Press, 2009, p. 64.</ref><ref>Luer & R. Escobar 1979. Orquideologia Vol 13 No 2</ref> <ref>Luer, C. A. 1993. Icones Pleurothallidinarum---X. Systematics of Dracula (Orchidaceae). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 46: 1–244. </ref>
'''''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.<ref>Bonine, Paul. ''Black Plants: 75 Striking Choices for the Garden'', Timber Press, 2009, p. 64.</ref><ref>Luer & R. Escobar 1979. Orquideologia Vol 13 No 2</ref><ref>Luer, C. A. 1993. Icones Pleurothallidinarum---X. Systematics of Dracula (Orchidaceae). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 46: 1–244.</ref>


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Dracula diabola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Dracula
Species:
D. diabola
Binomial name
Dracula diabola

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]

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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.