Goeppertia pallidicosta
Goeppertia pallidicosta is a prayer plant of the wet eastern Andean foothills of Ecuador, from the premontane rainforest around Mera in Pastaza south to Zamora-Chinchipe and down into the Amazon lowlands of Napo and Morona-Santiago. Its home is mild rather than hot, cloudy, and rainy in every month, so it wants cooler nights and steadier humidity than a lowland Amazonian Goeppertia.
Where it grows wild
Rhizomatous herb of the shaded floor of premontane rain forest and foothill terra firme forest, collected in mature forest, partly disturbed forest on clay soils and forest remnants near pasture; several collections are beside rivers (Villano, Nangaritza, Jamboe).
Recorded from 220 to 1300 m with a median of 1100 m; the core of the range is the foothill belt at 1000 to 1300 m around Mera and the Jamboe and Nangaritza valleys.
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