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Masdevallia oversteegeniana

Masdevallia oversteegeniana is a Peruvian species described by Luer and Sijm in 2010 and known from very little material. There are no georeferenced wild records and the climate point is Amazonian lowland, so conditions here are a cool-intermediate genus default for Peruvian cloud forest.

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 montane cloud forest on the Peruvian Andes, as for most of the genus; no species-specific habitat notes were available.

No recorded elevations; Peruvian Masdevallia mostly grow between about 1,500 and 3,000 m, not at the 270 m of the climate point.

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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