Goeppertia lietzei
A medium-sized prayer plant from the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. It has long, pointed, dark green leaves banded with light green and purple undersides. It produces stolons and aerial plantlets and roots from the nodes of its sprawling stems, which is why it naturalises readily in Central America and Java. Most plants sold as 'Calathea lietzei', including 'White Fusion', are actually cultivars of G. albertii.
Where it grows wild
Brazilian herbarium labels describe it as a terrestrial herb in shade or half-shade, including along road and forest edges. Naturalised populations in Mexico grow beside streams in very wet soil in humid montane forest. The stems eventually bend over and root at the nodes, forming spreading colonies.
Few wild records carry an elevation. Native collections come from Atlantic Forest in Rio de Janeiro (including Itatiaia), EspÃrito Santo and São Paulo. The data file's cooler measured nights suggest some sites are well above sea level.
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