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Masdevallia lamia

Masdevallia lamia is an Ecuadorian species described by Luer and Hirtz in 1988, with no georeferenced wild records. Grow it as an intermediate east-Andean cloud-forest Masdevallia: shaded, very humid, airy and never dry.

Masdevallia lamia
Photo: Luis Pérez from Medellin, Colombia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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 forest on the eastern Andean slope of Ecuador, on mossy branches in shade; no habitat data specific to this species were found.

No elevation is recorded; the climate comes from a fallback point at 1215 m on the eastern Andean slope, plausible but not confirmed for this species.

Ecuador

🔒 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. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY 2.0 licence, unmodified.