Goeppertia lancifolia
A clump-forming prayer-plant relative from the Atlantic rainforest of southeastern Brazil (Rio de Janeiro state), where it grows in the warm, damp, dim understory. Many current checklists treat it under the name Goeppertia insignis; the plant sold as Calathea lancifolia is the same thing. It wants steady warmth, even moisture and soft light, and punishes dry air and cold with crisped, curled leaves.
Where it grows wild
Terrestrial herb of the shaded forest floor in humid Atlantic Forest, rooting in leaf litter and humus-rich soil. Wild information is thin: only a handful of wild records exist, and most published habitat notes are generalised from cultivation rather than field studies.
The three wild records with an elevation lie at 82–620 m, median 110 m, so the measured sites are lowland Atlantic Forest. Some horticultural sources claim 700–1400 m, but no records here support that.
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