| Dracontia turckheimii photo C. Solimbergo | ||
| (Pleurothallis turckheimii) |
| taxonomy | described by | (Schlechter) Luer, Carlyle August |
| published in | Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 95 : 257 2004 | |
| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Epidendreae | |
| subtribe | Pleurothallidinae | |
| genus | Dracontia (Luer) Luer 2004 | |
| metabolism |
C3 pathway, stomata of the leaves are open during the day. |
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| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| soluble mineral nutriens are effective both, foliar or on the roots. | ||
| native of | origins | cloud forests mixed oak and pine trees, in Mexico (Chiapas), Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, |
| Costa Rica (Puntarenas, Coto Brus), El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama (Chiriquì) | ||
| altitude | 1300 - 1900 (2400) m (4290 - 6270 (7920) ft) | |
| habitat |
climate informations from Jitotol (Chiapas, Mexico) |
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| Köppen climate classification : Am, tropical monsoon climate (a dry season and a wet season very rainy) | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1700 m / 5600 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Jitotol this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 13 h 08 m' to 10 h 52 m' | |
| life form | epiphyte | |
| brightness | low | |
| inflorescence | length | 26 - 32 cm (10.4" - 12.8"), from the base of the leaf |
| nr flowers | 16 - 18 | |
| misure | single flower 1.3 L 0.3 cm (0.52" L 0.12") - inflorescence 11 L 3 cm (4.4" L 6.8") | |
| duration | inflorescence ≈ 30 days | |
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ 30 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
