''Dracula diabola'' is a species of orchid that only grows in a single valley in the

Boyacá Department Boyacá () is one of the thirty-two departments of Colombia, and the remnant of Boyacá State, one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia". Boyacá is centrally located within Colombia, almost entirely within the moun ...

, northeast of Bogotá,

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

. 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.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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