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Masdevallia wageneriana

A small Masdevallia from the mountains of northern Venezuela (Wikipedia also gives Colombia), described in 1852. Like most masdevallias it is a cloud-forest plant that wants cool-intermediate temperatures, constant moisture and very humid, moving air.

Masdevallia wageneriana
Photo: Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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

Presumed epiphyte of humid montane cloud forest in the northern Venezuelan cordilleras; the sources we could open give no habitat notes.

Elevation is not given in the sources we could open; the recorded sites (about 200 m and 900 m) are probably too low for a Masdevallia.

Venezuela

🔒 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.