Goeppertia longipetiolata
Goeppertia longipetiolata is a little-known prayer plant of the eastern Andean foothills of Peru, described by Helen Kennedy and known from a few collections in Huánuco and San MartÃn at 300 to 800 m. It grows in warm, humid foothill rainforest with a somewhat drier spell from June to September. It is not in cultivation; the conditions below are built from the measured climate and the genus.
Where it grows wild
A terrestrial forest-floor herb of humid lowland and premontane rainforest in the Huallaga valley region, in shade on moist ground; the long petioles suggest a plant holding its leaves above dense undergrowth.
The three sites are at 300, 550 and 781 m near Tingo MarÃa and the Huallaga valley; likely 200 to 1,000 m.
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