Masdevallia garciae
Masdevallia garciae is a little-known Venezuelan species described by Luer, with a single wild record at about 1400 m in the coastal range. Treat it as an intermediate-to-cool cloud-forest epiphyte: mild days, nights in the mid-teens, high humidity from mist and steady air movement.
Where it grows wild
Presumed epiphyte in the humid montane cloud forest of Venezuela's Cordillera de la Costa, where trade-wind cloud bathes the forest most afternoons even when little rain falls; nothing beyond the description is published on its microhabitat.
The one record sits at about 1400 m; the grid cell around it is near sea level, so the climate was adjusted upward by about 1300 m.
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