Lepanthes janitor

Lepanthes janitor

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" [7 to 25 mm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising from behind the leaf.
Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassMonocots
OrderAsparagales
FamilyOrchidaceae
GenusLepanthes
SpeciesLepanthes janitor
Photographed in
Colombia