Goeppertia roseobracteata
Goeppertia roseobracteata, described by Helen Kennedy as Calathea roseobracteata for its pink bracts, is a prayer-plant of the wet Pacific foothills of north-western Ecuador and adjoining Colombia, recorded at 200 to 600 m in Esmeraldas and the western Andean slopes. Its home is cloudy, humid and warm with a gentler, drier spell from August to November, so it wants shade, high humidity and steady warmth with only a slight easing of water in the northern autumn.
Where it grows wild
Understory herb of wet lowland and foothill rain forest of the Chocó biogeographic region, on the forest floor and along streams under closed canopy, where mist and cloud keep light low and air saturated.
Recorded at 200 to 600 m, median 500 m, in the foothills of the western cordillera.
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