Goeppertia schunkei
Goeppertia schunkei (formerly Calathea schunkei, named for the Peruvian collector José Schunke) is a rainforest prayer-plant of the Huallaga valley in San Martín, Peru, on the Amazonian foot of the Andes at 500 to 800 m. It lives in warm, humid premontane forest with a mild drier spell from June to September. At home it wants shade, steady warmth and humidity above 70 percent, with a slight easing of water in late summer.
Where it grows wild
Understory herb of wet premontane and lowland forest along the Huallaga, in shaded ground near streams and on humid lower slopes. Goeppertia of this region grow in the herb layer beneath a closed evergreen canopy.
The two georeferenced sites lie at about 550 and 780 m on the eastern Andean foothills; few records carry an elevation.
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