Lepanthes amphioxa Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by Andreas Kay and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE drawing by © Carl Luer
EARLY
THROUGH EARLY 
Common Name or Meaning The Sharply Pointed at Both Ends Lepanthes [refers to the petals]
Flower Size .1" [3 mm]
Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1250 to 1300 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with suberect, very slender ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 13 close fitting, glabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, thinly coriaceous, green suffused with red to red brown, ovate to narrowly ovate, acute, long-acuminate, prominently tridentate, the cuneate base contracted into a petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer through early fall on a congested, distichous, successively several flowered, racemose, .6" [1.6 cm] long inflorescence.
"Characterized by the very thin, weak ramicauls, spreading narrowly ovate leaves suffused with red but with green margins, transverse petals with lobes long-pointed, a bilaminate lip with the very small laminae flanking the column and a large oblong, dscending appendix with a tuft of long hairs on the rouned apex." Luer 1996
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide
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