Goeppertia hammelii
Goeppertia hammelii is a Costa Rican prayer plant of the wet Caribbean lowlands, described by Helen Kennedy as Calathea hammelii from the Sarapiquí region where most of its 32 wild records lie. It grows in the shaded floor of some of the rainiest forest in Central America, so at home it wants warm, even temperatures, very high humidity and a pot that never dries.
Where it grows wild
Terrestrial herb of the floor of very wet lowland rainforest, typically in shade near streams and swampy ground; most records are from the La Selva area of Sarapiquí.
Recorded at 50 to 850 m with a median of 100 m; it is essentially a lowland species of the Caribbean slope.
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