Goeppertia saxicola
Goeppertia saxicola (formerly Calathea saxicola, described by Hoehne) is a rock-dwelling prayer-plant of the central Brazilian plateau in Goiás and Mato Grosso, known from only a handful of collections. Its home has a hot, sharply seasonal climate: a wet summer and a five-month dry season with afternoon humidity near 40 percent. Unlike the rainforest Goeppertia it needs a drier, brighter winter and will rot if kept wet and dim year round.
Where it grows wild
The epithet means rock-dweller: it grows in soil pockets among sandstone or quartzite outcrops and on shaded rocky slopes at the edge of gallery forest in the Cerrado. The genus in this region sits in rhizomatous clumps that die back partly in the dry season.
No wild record carries an elevation; the one usable site sits at about 660 m, typical of the plateau between the Araguaia and Xingu headwaters.
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