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Masdevallia cardiantha

Masdevallia cardiantha Königer is a little-known Peruvian species described in 1980 from cultivated material, with a heart-shaped flower outline behind its name. There are no georeferenced wild records and the only climate site in the data is a lowland placeholder, so this profile leans on what Peruvian cloud-forest Masdevallias need in general and should be read as a starting point.

Masdevallia cardiantha
Photo: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Presumably an epiphyte of wet montane cloud forest on the eastern Andean slope of Peru, in moss on shaded trunks, like the other Königer species from the region; no field habitat notes are available.

No wild elevations are recorded. The single climate site at 273 m near Tingo María is a placeholder, not a habitat; Peruvian Masdevallias of this group grow at roughly 1800 to 2800 m.

Peru

🔒 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 CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.