Goeppertia sciuroides
Goeppertia sciuroides (formerly Calathea sciuroides) is a prayer-plant of the Atlantic Forest of Bahia and Espírito Santo in eastern Brazil, from the coastal lowlands up to about 500 m. It has a mild seasonal climate: warm wet summers and a cooler, drier winter with nights in the mid-teens. At home it is one of the easier Goeppertia, tolerating cooler winter nights than Amazonian species while still needing shade and high humidity.
Where it grows wild
Understory herb of lowland and submontane Atlantic rainforest, on shaded humid ground and along streams. Goeppertia of this forest form part of the herb layer beneath a dense evergreen canopy.
Recorded from 26 to 500 m, median 261 m (10 records): coastal tabuleiro forest and the lower hills inland.
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