Goeppertia panamensis
Goeppertia panamensis is a widespread lowland prayer plant of Central and northern South America, common in the forests of central Panama and Costa Rica and reaching the Llanos gallery forests of Venezuela and Colombia and the southern Amazon in Brazil. It grows in hot, humid lowland forest with warm nights and, over much of its range, a pronounced dry season from January to March, which makes it more tolerant of seasonal swings than the deep-shade Amazonian species.
Where it grows wild
Rhizomatous herb of the understory of lowland moist and seasonally dry forest, gallery and riparian forest along rivers in the Llanos of Colombia and Venezuela, open ombrophilous forest on yellow latosols in Rondônia, and forest edges and sandstone outcrop scrub in Mato Grosso. In Panama and Costa Rica it is a familiar plant of forest floors and stream banks on both slopes.
Recorded from sea level to about 1400 m, but the median is 85 m and the great majority of collections are below 500 m.
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