Goeppertia paucifolia
Goeppertia paucifolia is a little-known Ecuadorian prayer plant of the wet Amazonian foothills, described by Helen Kennedy from the Napo and Pastaza region and known from only a handful of wild collections between 250 and 900 m. Its home is warm, dim and wet in every month of the year, so it wants an enclosed, evenly humid setup with no dry rest.
Where it grows wild
A rhizomatous understory herb of the floor of lowland and foothill rainforest on the eastern slope of the Ecuadorian Andes, in the wettest belt of the upper Amazon. The epithet refers to its few leaves; details beyond the original description are not published.
Wild records span 250 to 900 m, with most around 300 to 400 m near the Andean foot.
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