Masdevallia carpishica

Masdevallia carpishica Luer & Cloes is named for the Carpish ridge in Huánuco, Peru, one of the wettest and best-known orchid localities on the eastern Andean slope, where the Huánuco to Tingo María road crosses the cloud belt at about 2500 to 2800 m. It is a cold-to-cool grower for a saturated, permanently misty case; no wild records carry coordinates, and the climate site in the data is a lowland placeholder that does not describe its home.

At home, aim for

Day Cool-growingTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Very humid airBand in Plantistry

Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

An epiphyte of dwarf, moss-laden elfin cloud forest on the Carpish ridge, where cloud sits on the pass for much of most days and everything is coated in moss and liverworts.

The Carpish pass and its cloud forest lie at roughly 2500 to 2800 m; the 273 m climate site near Tingo María is a placeholder and not the habitat.

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.