Lepanthes janitor Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Mucronatae 1996Photo by © Sebastian Vierra and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage

Common Name The Doorkeeper Lepanthes [refers to the blades of the lip that close over the column]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool 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, 1.28" [2.7 cm] long, successively flowered inflorescence arising behind the leaf

Differs from the very similar L myoxophora by the thin lobes of the lip that close over a large, bifurcated columm with the stigma bilobed beneath a large, rostelar flap.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 53(3): 362. 1984 photo as L myoxophora fide as L janitor; *Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 53(4): 372. 1984 Luer drawing/photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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