Goeppertia macrosepala
Goeppertia macrosepala, formerly Calathea macrosepala and known as chufle or macús, is a tall prayer-plant relative from southern Mexico to western Colombia and Trinidad. It grows 0.6–1.8 m tall, with leaves 24–90 cm long bearing a yellow-green feathered pattern along the midrib. Unlike most houseplant Goeppertia, it lives in seasonally dry deciduous and gallery forests and dies back to its rhizome in the dry season. Its young flower clusters are eaten as a vegetable in Central America.
Where it grows wild
It grows in deciduous and evergreen forest, especially gallery forest along streams and disturbed, regrowing areas, on the Pacific slope and in the north-central lowlands of Central America. These are warm lowland sites under a broken canopy that loses many leaves in the dry season.
Spanish Wikipedia gives 0–1000 m. The 331 records with an elevation span 0–1725 m, median 466 m. Most are lowland, with a tail into foothill forest.
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