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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Dracula orchids
| image = Dracula-vampira.web.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = ''Dracula vampira''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Liliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asparagales]]
| familia = [[Orchidaceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Epidendroideae]]
| tribus = [[Epidendreae]]
| subtribus = [[Pleurothallidinae]]
| genus = '''''Dracula'''''
| genus_authority = [[Carlyle August Luer|Luer]], 1978
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision = 
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}}

The [[orchid]] [[genus]] '''''Dracula'''''  consists of 118 [[species]]. The strange name ''Dracula'', literally means "little dragon", referring to the strange aspect of the two long spurs of the [[sepal]]s <ref> [http://www.planetarkive.org/creatures/flowering-plants.jsp?mode=minifact&minifact=_minifactAsset_4848749040 Planet Arkive : Dracula orchid] </ref>.  They were once included in the genus ''[[Masdevallia]]'', but became a separate genus in 1978. This genus has some of the more bizarre and well-known species of the subtribe [[Pleurothallidinae]].