Masdevallia os-viperae

Masdevallia os-viperae is an Ecuadorian species described by Luer and Andreetta in 1989 and known from very few collections. Its single wild record sits at about 1,700 m on the eastern Andean slope in Morona-Santiago, so it is an intermediate-temperature cloud-forest plant rather than a cold grower.

At home, aim for

Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry

Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Presumably an epiphyte of wet montane forest on the eastern slope of the Ecuadorian Andes, as for most of the genus; no species-specific habitat notes were available.

The one georeferenced record is at about 1,700 m.

EcuadorMorona-Santiago

🔒 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.