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Other Little published: much of this is inferred from related species

Goeppertia subtilis

Goeppertia subtilis (formerly Calathea subtilis, described by Spencer Moore from his 1890s Mato Grosso collections) is an obscure prayer plant of west-central Brazil. It comes from the cerrado region, where forest is confined to gallery strips along streams and the year splits sharply into a hot wet season and a long, dry, cool-night winter, so it is one of the more seasonal members of the genus.

At home, aim for
Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
Expects a seasonal restGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

Almost certainly a small herb of shaded gallery forest or moist forest patches within the cerrado of Mato Grosso, where streamside forest holds moisture through the dry season. No habitat notes are published beyond the original description; the profile generalises from the one georeferenced site and from cerrado gallery-forest Goeppertia.

The single recorded site lies at about 660 m on the Mato Grosso plateau; few records carry an elevation.

Brazil West-CentralMato Grosso

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app.