''Dracula wallisii'' is a species of
orchid belonging to the genus ''
Dracula
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''. The species is found at altitudes of in
Cordillera Central Central Cordillera refers to the New Guinea Highlands.
Cordillera Central, meaning ''central range'' in Spanish, may refer to the following mountain ranges:
* Cordillera Central, Andes (disambiguation), several mountain ranges in South America
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,
Colombia
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. It is a common species, with large flowers that are often highly variable in form.
The species was first discovered near
Frontino, Antioquia
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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, Colombia by the German
plant collector Gustav Wallis
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in 1871. It was formally described in 1875 by the German
orchidologist
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* Oakes Ames (botanist) (1874–1950), an American biologist specializing in orchids
Joseph Arditti (193 ...
Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach who named it after Wallis.
References
External links
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wallisii
Endemic orchids of Colombia
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