Masdevallia cheloglossa

Masdevallia cheloglossa is a Peruvian species described by Luer and Dalstrom in 2006 and known from very few collections. The measured climate is a lowland stand-in and should be ignored; grow it as a cool Andean cloud-forest Masdevallia with shaded, humid, moving air and cool nights.

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

Presumed an epiphyte of wet montane cloud forest on the eastern Andean slope of Peru, as for the other Luer and Dalstrom Masdevallia of that period; no habitat account was reachable.

No elevation is recorded. The climate site is a stand-in at 273 m in the Huallaga-Ucayali lowlands chosen from the country outline; that is hot rainforest where no Masdevallia grows, and the real locality is almost certainly montane cloud forest above 1500 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.