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Masdevallia pachysepala

Masdevallia pachysepala (Rchb.f.) Luer is a thick-sepalled Andean species of Colombia and Venezuela, raised to species rank by Luer in 1994. It has no wild records in GBIF; treat it as a cool-growing high-Andean Masdevallia and ignore the lowland climate attached to it.

Masdevallia pachysepala
Photo: Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Cool-growingTargets 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

No habitat detail is available to us; like its relatives it is presumed to grow as an epiphyte or lithophyte in humid, mossy montane forest of the northern Andes.

Unknown; northern Andean Masdevallias mostly grow between about 2000 and 3200 m.

ColombiaVenezuela

🔒 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 Public domain licence, unmodified.