Goeppertia foliosa
Goeppertia foliosa (formerly Calathea foliosa) is a clumping understory herb of the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica, with outliers in Nicaragua and Panama. Collections come from primary forest along rivers and premontane wet forest, mostly below 300 m but reaching about 1,300 m, so it accepts a slightly wider temperature band than the strictly lowland calatheas. Treat it as a warm, humid shade plant with no real dry season.
Where it grows wild
Forest-floor herb of tropical wet and premontane wet forest, recorded in primary forest on riverbanks and in humid understory at places like La Selva and the Tenorio foothills. Soils are moist, leaf-litter-rich alluvium or volcanic loam under closed canopy.
3 to 1,305 m, median 150 m; most records below 300 m on the Caribbean lowlands, a few in premontane forest above 1,000 m.
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