Goeppertia elliptica
A medium-sized prayer plant from northern South America, better known in the trade as Calathea elliptica, especially the cultivar 'Vittata' with pale green-yellow bands along each leaf. Juveniles often show pink or white lines that fade or become brush-like bands with age. It is an understory herb of warm, humid lowland forest in the Guianas, Venezuela, Colombia and northern Brazil.
Where it grows wild
A clump-forming understory herb of humid tropical forest, rising from the ground on long petioles with a pulvinus that lets the leaves move. No more specific habitat is given in the sources used.
No elevation is published in the sources used; its range in the Guianas and northern Amazonia is mostly lowland.
🔒 Growing it like that
The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:
Grow Goeppertia elliptica? Add it to a free garden and its full profile opens. Pro opens all 38,374 profiles in the library, plants and fungi.
More Goeppertia
Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app.