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Calathea casupito

Calathea casupito is an old name (Jacquin, transferred to Calathea by G. Meyer in 1818) for a Calathea of northern South America and Trinidad. It is recorded from about 100 to 1300 m. It is a warm-growing, shaded forest herb, with a more seasonal rainfall pattern than most in the genus.

Calathea casupito
Photo: Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph; Mathiae Andreae Schmidt., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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

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 records span lowland and premontane forest in Trinidad, the Venezuelan coastal ranges and Guyana.

The 31 records with an elevation run from 100 to 1300 m, with a median of 884 m. The heaviest-weighted site (Trinidad) is at 245 m.

ColombiaGuyanaTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela

🔒 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.