Masdevallia campyloglossa
Masdevallia campyloglossa Rchb.f. is a widespread Andean cloud-forest species with fleshy, triangular greenish-yellow flowers speckled in purple, held low among the leaves on short stems; the name refers to its curved lip. Wild records run from about 1500 to nearly 3000 m in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, and the measured climate is cool and wet all year, so it is a straightforward cool grower.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte, sometimes found on mossy banks, in wet upper montane cloud forest of the Cordillera Central and Occidental of Colombia and the Andean slopes south into Ecuador and Peru; it grows in moss in shade with constant mist.
Records at 1500 to 2933 m; the climate sites are weighted toward 2200 to 2900 m in Colombia, which is where most records sit.
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