Goeppertia colombiana
Goeppertia colombiana (formerly Calathea colombiana) is a Chocó endemic: a rainforest-floor herb from the Pacific lowlands of Colombia, one of the wettest places on Earth. It wants warm, near-saturated air, dim light and a substrate that never dries; there is no dry season to imitate.
Where it grows wild
Wild records sit on the Pacific slope of Chocó, Valle del Cauca and Antioquia, mostly below 100 m in lowland pluvial forest with roughly 5,000 mm of rain a year. Like other Goeppertia it is a clumping terrestrial herb of the shaded forest floor, often near streams.
Recorded 17–2000 m but the median is 55 m; the single high record is an outlier and the plant is essentially a lowland species.
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