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Other Little published: much of this is inferred from related species

Calathea backemiana

Calathea backemiana is a name published by Édouard Morren in La Belgique Horticole in 1875, for a plant in European horticulture. Its wild origin isn't clear from the available data, and GBIF has no usable wild records. Grow it like a typical warm, humid, shade-loving Calathea, and treat every figure below as a genus-level estimate.

At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

No habitat or wild locality data were found. It was described from cultivation. 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 wild elevation data are available.

🔒 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.