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Dracula simia (Luer) Luer

Monkey-Face Orchid

Orchidaceae · Ecuador · listed by its genus as an orchid

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Dracula simia, photograph Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDracula simia, photograph El Funcionario, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 3 photographs ›

Summary

Dracula simia, known also as the monkey-like Dracula, is an epiphytic orchid originally described as part of the genus Masdevallia, but later reclassified as part of genus Dracula. The arrangement of column, petals and lip resembles a monkey's face. The plant blooms at any season with several flowers on the inflorescence that open successively. Flowers are fragrant with the scent of a ripe orange. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Dracula simia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as an orchid, listed under the genus Dracula in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Dracula in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 8 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 8 of the 8 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeEcuador · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-4.45, -79.155 · in the densest population, 8 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 8 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 44 km away. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 8 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 8 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; El Funcionario, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Dracula 55 in the reference

Dracula amaliae Dracula amaliae Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Daniel MesaDracula andreettae Dracula andreettae Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Nolan Exe Dracula anthracina Orchidaceae Dracula astuta Dracula astuta Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Andrey LoriaDracula bella Dracula bella Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Esteban Villa RestrepoDracula benedicti Dracula benedicti Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Orchi Dracula berthae Orchidaceae Dracula brangeri Dracula brangeri Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, RudolphousDracula carlueri Dracula carlueri Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Jody ShugartDracula chestertonii Dracula chestertonii Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiDracula chimaera Dracula chimaera Chimera Dracula Photo: CC0, author not statedDracula chiroptera Dracula chiroptera Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Frank Dietze all 56 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Masdevallia simia. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
(Luer) Luer
Native to
Ecuador
Wild records
8 in range · 3 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-228 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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