taxonID	type	description	language	source
880287ADFFAAF063FF01FC38D4B3F992.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: similar to Dracula radiosa (Rchb. f.) Luer, but distinguished by smaller flowers and a doubly alate lip.	en	Doucette, Alfonso (2012): Validation of Dracula trignopetala (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) with an English diagnosis and description. Phytotaxa 74 (1): 59, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.74.1.6, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.74.1.6
880287ADFFAAF063FF01FC38D4B3F992.taxon	materials_examined	Type: ⎯ ECUADOR. Pichincha: Quito, from material cultivated by Luis Baquero, April 2011, FLOARE 1887 (holotype: QCNE!). Epiphytic, caespitose herbs, 11 – 22 cm tall. Roots flexuous, 2 mm in diameter. Stem erect, sulcate, 1.6 – 2.0 cm long, enveloped by 2 – 3 sheaths, 0.5 – 3.5 cm long. Leaf erect, coriaceous, spathulate, apex acute, 10 – 20 cm long, 4 – 6 cm wide. Inflorescence a successively few flowered raceme; peduncles subverrucose, 10 – 12 cm long, enveloped by several bracts 2 – 4 mm long. Flower pedicellate; pedicel slender, verrucose, 3 – 5 mm long; sepals tan, connate to form a cup, suffused and speckled brown, contracted into purple tails, dorsal sepal 15 mm long, 18 mm wide, the tail of 1 – 3 cm long, lateral sepals 16 mm long, 15 mm wide, connate at the base forming a shallow mentum, the apex contracted into a tail similar to that of the dorsal sepal; petals yellow marked with black, cartilaginous, oblong, bivalvate, 4 mm long, 3 mm wide; lip white, suffused with yellow and rose, divided into a hypochile and epichile, hypochile ovate with an alate margin, this cleft with a second pair of alae, 3 mm long and wide, epichile concave, round, deflexed on the hypochile, coursed by radiating, unbranched keels, 3 mm long, 6 mm wide; column yellow, suffused with purple, semiterete, 2 mm long, 1 mm wide, foot 2 mm long.	en	Doucette, Alfonso (2012): Validation of Dracula trignopetala (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) with an English diagnosis and description. Phytotaxa 74 (1): 59, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.74.1.6, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.74.1.6
