Lankesteriana, the scientific journal of the Lankester Botanical Garden (University of Costa Rica), has been devoted since 2001 to publishing articles on botany, especially epiphytic plants and orchid systematics, ecology, evolution, and physiology, along with book reviews and conference proceedings. As a diamond open-access journal, Lankesteriana charges no article processing fees (APCs) and provides immediate, free access to all content—maximizing visibility, citations, and global reach for authors while upholding rigorous editorial and scientific standard

Lankesteriana is indexed by Thomson Reuters' Biosis, Scielo, Scopus, Latindex, Scirus, and WZB, it is included in the databases of E-journals, Ebookbrowse, FAO Online Catalogues, CiteBank, Mendeley, WorldCat, Core Electronic Journals Library, and Biodiveristy Heritage Library, and in the electronic resources of the Columbia University, the University of Florida, the University of Hamburg, and the Smithsonian Institution, among others.