Goeppertia maasiorum
Goeppertia maasiorum is a prayer plant of the Guianan rainforest, named by Helen Kennedy for the botanists Paul and Hiltje Maas, and is one of the better collected species in the genus with over a hundred records from French Guiana and a few from Suriname. It grows on the floor of very wet lowland forest from near sea level to about 700 m, in some of the most humid conditions of any Goeppertia. Cultivation is uncommon but straightforward in a warm, humid cabinet.
Where it grows wild
A terrestrial herb of the shaded floor of lowland and low hill rainforest on the Guiana Shield, in humus on well-drained but constantly moist ground, often along creeks and on lower slopes.
Recorded from 5 to 722 m, median 301 m over 44 records; most collections are in the hilly interior of French Guiana between 100 and 500 m.
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