Calathea brenesii
Calathea brenesii is a montane Calathea of Costa Rica and western Panama, described by Standley in 1937 and well collected (167 wild records). It grows mostly at 1200–1750 m under cool, very wet conditions with a short dry season. Treat it as an intermediate-to-cool, humid, shaded forest 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 species-specific habitat account was reachable. The dense record clusters in the Costa Rican cordilleras at 1200–1750 m point to premontane and lower montane rainforest understory.
The 161 records with an elevation run from 500 to 2700 m, with a median of 1600 m.
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