Bolbitis portoricensis
The most widespread New World Bolbitis, found from Mexico and the Caribbean to northern South America, mostly in lowland forest below about 1,000 m. It creeps over shaded, wet rocks and stream banks, so it does well in a warm, humid terrarium with the rhizome kept damp.
Where it grows wild
Lowland and lower montane wet forest, typically on shaded rocks and soil beside streams and in ravines, sometimes on boulders reached by splash or floods.
Most records are from near sea level to about 1,000 m, median 349 m; the 4,500 m maximum is almost certainly an error.
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