Finding
This plant almost exactly matches the specimen from Kew's herbarium shown in the POWO. The plant and flower matches Luer's description and drawing in his Dracula Icones including three keels on the lip lobe and denticulate margin and it also matches the photo in the IOSPE.
Overall Length Of Growth Cane: 23.5 cm
Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 1
Leaf Length: 23.0
Leaf Width: 2.0 cm
Leaf Margin: entire`
Leaf Shape: narrowly elliptical-obovate when flattened; natural appearance more linear lanceolate
Pseudobulb Length: very short ramicaul
Pseudobulb Width: 0.3
Inflorescence Overall Length: 23.5 cm
Inflorescence Arrangement: successively single flowered
Inflorescence Dist Base To Bud: 20.0 cm
Inflorescence Dist Bet Flowers: 2.0 cm
Inflorescence Dist To Sepal: 0.7 cm
Floral Bracts Length: 1.3 cm
Floral Bracts Width: 0.2 cm
Ovary Length: 0.7 cm
Ovary Width: 0.2 cm
Ovary Shape: slightly curved
Ovary Color: burgundy
Ovary Texture: smooth
Flower Natural Spread Length: 9.5 cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 3.0 cm
Dorsal Sepal Length: 4.7 cm
Dorsal Sepal Width: 1.5 cm
Dorsal Sepal Cauda Length: 3.2 cm
Dorsal Sepal Cauda Width: 0.1 cm
Lateral Sepals Length: 5.2 cm
Lateral Sepals Width: 1.3 cm
Lateral Sepals Caudae Length: 3.2 cm
Lateral Sepals Caudae Width: 1.0 cm
Petals Length: 0.2 cm
Petals Width: 0.1 cm
Judging Center: Northeast
Award Number: 20235025
Award Date: May 06, 2023
Awarded As: Dracula erythrochaete 'Blanca' CHM/AOS
Three flowers and two buds on five horizontal to upright inflorescences to 23.5 cm emerging singly from the base of carinate, narrowly elliptical obovate entire leaves 2.0 cm wide by 23.0 cm tall on a 19 cm wide by 23 cm tall plant grown in sphagnum in a 8.0 cm plastic basket; sepals cream finely speckled burgundy slightly coalescing apically, caudae burgundy, 3.2 cm long; petals cream, minute; lip hinged, mobile, spatulate, slightly cupped, margin dentate, light peach; upright habit of inflorescences very attractive, a desirable trait when compared to prior awards; submitted as Dracula gaskelliana which is considered synonymous.
