''Dracula nosferatu'' is a species of
orchid in the subtribe
Pleurothallidinae (family
Orchidaceae), native to
Antioquia Department
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, Colombia.
An epiphyte found only in a few locales in a degraded
cloud forest
A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud forest (TMCF), is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud c ...
, it is nonetheless cultivated by ''Dracula'' enthusiasts, by cloning.
References
nosferatu
Endemic orchids of Colombia
Plants described in 1989
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