Goeppertia chimboracensis
A rare, endangered prayer plant (Marantaceae) named after the Chimborazo region of Ecuador and first described by Linden. It grows on the floor of wet lowland and foothill forest on Ecuador's Pacific slope, and the Tsáchila people use it to treat bleeding. Little is published about its care, so the targets below are estimated from where it has been collected and from how its relatives are grown: warm, shaded, humid and evenly moist.
Where it grows wild
Wet lowland and foothill rainforest (bosque pluvial) on the western slope of the Andes in Ecuador, in the provinces of Los RÃos, Pichincha and Azuay–Cañar, including ridge forest at El Centinela. Like most Goeppertia it grows on the shaded forest floor in humus-rich soil.
Records that give an elevation lie between about 90 and 1,200 m, with a median near 450 m.
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