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Orchids Partly documented

Macodes obscura

A little-known jewel orchid from New Guinea, known from very few collections. Like its relatives it is a creeping terrestrial of the shaded, permanently wet lowland rainforest floor, so it needs warm, still-humid, low-light conditions all year with no rest.

Macodes obscura
Photo: Biodiversity Heritage Library, Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light Deep shadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

Probably the leaf litter and mossy banks of the lowland rainforest floor, as for other Macodes. This is inferred from the genus; no habitat notes for this species were found.

No wild records carry an elevation; the one climate site used sits at about 170 m in the New Guinea lowlands.

New Guinea

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its Public domain licence, unmodified.