Masdevallia dunstervillei

Masdevallia dunstervillei is a Venezuelan endemic named for the orchid explorer G.C.K. Dunsterville, with no wild GBIF records and little published beyond its description. Treat it as a cool-to-intermediate cloud-forest Masdevallia from the Venezuelan mountains; the measured climate in the data is a lowland country centroid and should be ignored.

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

Probably an epiphyte of humid montane cloud forest in the Venezuelan Andes or coastal Cordillera, the habitat of nearly all Venezuelan Masdevallia; no locality details are in the records.

No elevation recorded; Venezuelan Masdevallia are mostly found between about 1500 and 2800 m.

Venezuela

🔒 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.