Dracula barrowii

A Peruvian species that I find a bit shy on blooming. The body of the flower is about 3/4" wide and the tails are 5" from tip to tip.

 

Kelly, they are very sensitive to water quality. Most all cloud forest plants are. Some Dracula species put out mass bloomings, some bloom much of the year and others under the same conditions just don't often bloom for me.

 

Stephen, it is not a big plant. Here is an image with a ruler. I would guess the leaves are 7 or 8" tall, but it isn't a space hog. Some other compact, cool growing draculas are D cutis-bufonis, D cochliops (true miniature), D exasperata (likes to dry a bit between waterings), D bella, D deltoidia, D amaliae among others. Not sure all of these would suit your size requirement, but my overall memory of these is more compact.

 

Do you grow the lotax warmer? I had mine with bottom heat for a long time and is now in the warm house doing very well. I just remembered gorgonella and velutina xanthina. If there is a colored form of velutina it is probably small too.

 

Recently I have seen some people on the internet using that term for draculas, but I have been used to that term for non-orchids. Dracula simia has been called the monkey faced flower since simia was a section of primates.