Goeppertia leucostachys
A medium-sized prayer plant from Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, formerly Calathea leucostachys, with plain dark green, velvety, fully hairy leaves that are purple underneath and a pale green midrib. It is close to G. warszewiczii but lacks its feathered pattern, and bears white bracts that age pinkish. Species-specific habitat data are scarce, so grow it like other Central American rainforest-floor Goeppertia: warm, shaded, evenly moist and humid.
Where it grows wild
Specific habitat notes for this species are thin. Like its relatives it is a terrestrial herb of the humid forest floor, growing in shade under the canopy on moist, humus-rich soil.
No elevation data were found for this species; related Central American Goeppertia grow mainly in lowland to premontane wet forest, below about 1,200 m.
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