Goeppertia lindbergii
Goeppertia lindbergii (Calathea lindbergii) is a Brazilian understory herb of the Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, with a record from gallery forest near Brasília. It grows on the shaded forest floor in a climate with a warm, wet summer and a distinctly cooler, drier winter, so at home it wants a humid summer and a mild winter rest with cooler nights. Only four wild records exist and little is published, so the profile is inferred from the climate and the genus.
Where it grows wild
Floor of humid Atlantic rainforest and inland gallery forest, in shade beneath a closed canopy, on moist, humus-rich soils along streams and on lower slopes.
Recorded at 100 to 1,000 m, median 800 m: coastal lowland forest and the serra foothills, plus one plateau gallery forest at about 1,000 m.
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