Calathea asplundii
Calathea asplundii is an Andean Calathea described by Helen Kennedy in the Flora of Ecuador (1988). It is known from about two dozen wild records in Ecuador and Colombia, mostly around 1800 m. Grow it as a cool-to-intermediate, very humid, shaded forest-floor herb.
Where it grows wild
Like other Calathea in the strict sense (the bracted, mostly Central and South American group that stayed in Calathea when Goeppertia was split off), it is a clump-forming terrestrial herb of wet forest. No habitat notes specific to this species were reachable. The records fall on the wet Andean slopes of northern Ecuador and southern Colombia, which suggests montane forest understory.
The 21 records with an elevation run from 350 to 2700 m, with a median of 1830 m. That makes it a premontane-to-montane plant, cooler than most Calathea in cultivation.
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