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Lepanthes janitor A colourful Lepanthes from 2.500 metres on Cerro Montezuma, now identified as Lepanthes janitor Cerro Montezuma,Lepanthes janitor,Tatama National Park Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Lepanthes janitor

A colourful Lepanthes from 2.500 metres on Cerro Montezuma, now identified as Lepanthes janitor

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Found in Antioquia and Choco departments of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 1700 to 2700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 11 to 13, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coricaeous, ovate, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a filiform, congested, .68 to 1.4" [1.7 to 3.5 cm] long including the .28 to 1".. more

Similar species: Agaves, Aloes, Onions
Species identified by NattyOne
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By NattyOne

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Uploaded Dec 9, 2019. Captured Aug 7, 2019 18:37.
  • Canon EOS 7D Mark II
  • f/5.6
  • 1/197s
  • ISO1250
  • 60mm