Masdevallia carnosa

Masdevallia carnosa Königer is an obscure Peruvian species described in 2003 in Königer's journal Arcula, named for its fleshy flowers. Nothing beyond the original description is published, no wild records carry coordinates, and the one climate site in the data is a lowland placeholder, so the conditions below are those of Peruvian cloud-forest Masdevallias in general.

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 slope of the Peruvian Andes, in moss on shaded trunks; no habitat notes are available beyond the country.

No wild elevations recorded. The 273 m climate site near Tingo María is a placeholder, not a habitat; comparable Peruvian species grow at about 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.