Masdevallia antonii
Masdevallia antonii is a small Peruvian cloud-forest epiphyte described by Königer in 1999, known from the Kosñipata valley of Cusco and from Pasco at roughly 1,400 to 2,450 m. It wants the classic cool-to-intermediate Masdevallia regime: cool nights, constant humidity, gentle filtered light and a medium that never dries out. Little has been published beyond the description, so the guidance here leans on the measured sites and on the genus as a whole.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium records place it in tall cloud forest on the Amazon-facing slope of the Andes in Paucartambo province, where fog and rain keep the mossy branches wet for most of the year. It grows as an epiphyte on moss-covered trunks and limbs.
Records span 1,420 to 2,430 m; the two most precisely located sites are at about 1,440 m in Cusco and 2,430 m in Pasco.
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