Lepanthes implexa Luer & Hirtz 1987 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Interwoven Lepanthes [refers to the intricities of the appendix]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in southeastern Ecuador at elevations around 2150 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 8 to 11, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purplish beneath, ovate, acute to acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a filiform, congested, distichous, 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf.

"Similar to L urotepala but vegetatively smaller, minutely denticulate sepals, upper lobes of the petals neither narrow nor as long, and the appendix differently sculpted . The appendix is a delicately and intricately sculpted organ that appears to be interwoven." Luer 1996

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Lindleyana 2: 36 Luer & Hirtz 1987 Drawing fide; 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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