Goeppertia gymnocarpa
A medium-sized prayer plant from the wet lowland forests of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Young leaves carry pink pinstripes like Goeppertia ornata, which fade and are replaced by two broad yellowish-green bands, and many mature plants end up plain green. It is a humid, warm, shade-loving understorey plant with no dry season.
Where it grows wild
Terrestrial in the understorey of wet tropical forest, mostly on the Caribbean slope of Central America, where it grows from rhizomes in moist, humus-rich forest soil in deep to moderate shade.
GBIF records with an elevation run from near sea level to about 1,500 m, with a median of about 160 m, so it is mainly a lowland and foothill plant.
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