Masdevallia vargasii
A small, widespread Masdevallia of wet forest from southern Colombia to Bolivia, with outlying records in Guyana and Brazil, at about 300–1900 m. It is one of the warmer-growing masdevallias and needs shade, humid air and moist roots.
Where it grows wild
Labels describe it as epiphytic in wet forest in Bolivia and Ecuador, and in dense lowland forest at the base of an escarpment in Guyana.
Records run from about 300 to 1900 m; the climate sites are at 400–1900 m.
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