With over 2000 orchid species and a location near the Parque Internacional La Amistad, Finca Dracula is a great place to do research on orchids and cloud forest species.
Our research is interested in:
Improve Horticultural Knowledge
to help orchid lovers, growers and circun-situ orchid conservation effortsDetermining the orchid diversity in Panama
to help the conservation efforts of its ecosystemsIluminating Orchid Evolution
to understand why orchids look the way they do and why they are such a diverse family of plants.Latest News
Our Researchers
Dr. Alfonso Doucette
Selected Publications:
1. Doucette, A., Timyan, J., Henrys, I., & Cameron, K.M. (2016) A tiny new species of Specklinia from Haiti's Parc National Naturel Macaya and new combinations in Acianthera (Pleurothallidinae, Epidendreae, Epidendroideae, Orchidaceae). Phytotaxa 275: 263-276.
2. Doucette, A., Portilla, J., & Cameron, K.M. (2016) Ten new taxa in the orchid subtribe Pleurothallidinae (Epidendroideae, Epidendreae) from Ecuador. Phytotaxa 257: 230-248.
3. Givnish, T.J., Spalink, D., Ames, M., Lyon, S.P., Hunter, S.J., Zuluaga, A., Doucette, A., Giraldo Caro, G., McDaniel, J., Clements, M.A., Arroyo, M.T.K., Endara, L., Kriebel, R., Williams, N.H., and Cameron, K.M. (2016) Orchid historical biogeography, diversification, Antarctica and the paradox of orchid dispersal. Journal of Biogeography 43: 1905-1916.
4. Zelenko, H. (A. Doucette, as contributing editor). Orchids: Masdevallia with segregates including Dracula. Quito: ZAI Publications, 2014.
Dracula immunda A.Doucette: a new species of Dracula discovered in Veraguas, Panama, described in 2011 based on material cultivated at Finca Dracula.
Pleurothallis anthurioides A.Doucette: a new species that was described in 2016 from material gathered on a research expedition led by Finca Dracula to Bocas del Torro.