Lepanthes ilensis Dodson 1980 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993

Side View of Flower Photos by © Alexander Hirtz

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

Common Name The Ila Lepanthes [A mountain range in Ecuador]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in west central Ecuador at elevations around 600 to 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 9 to 11, lepanthiform sheaths with oblique ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, obtuse to shortly acuminate, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer, fall and winter on a slender, congested, secund, 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf and carrying submuricate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 127 Dodson 1980 as L illense drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 as L illense drawing ok; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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