Goeppertia selbyana
Goeppertia selbyana (formerly Calathea selbyana, named for the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens) is a prayer-plant of the Chocó rainforest on the Pacific side of Colombia and Ecuador, from the lowlands of Esmeraldas and Chocó up to about 1,300 m in the foothills. At home it needs shade, permanent moisture and humidity that never drops below 70 percent.
Where it grows wild
Understory herb of pluvial lowland and premontane rainforest, on saturated humus over clay, along streams and on shaded slopes. Goeppertia of the Chocó grow beneath a dense multi-layered canopy in perpetually damp air.
Recorded from 42 to 1,800 m, median 500 m (21 records); most sites are lowland or foothill, with the upper records in the Andean foothills of Carchi and Nariño where nights are several degrees cooler.
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