Goeppertia tinalandia
Goeppertia tinalandia (formerly Calathea tinalandia, described by Helen Kennedy and named for the Tinalandia reserve in the western foothills of Ecuador) is a foothill prayer plant of Colombia and Ecuador. It grows in wet premontane forest on both flanks of the Andes, mostly between 700 and 1350 m, in a mild, very humid climate with only a short drier spell around August and September.
Where it grows wild
An understory herb of wet premontane and lower montane rainforest on the Andean foothills, from the Pacific slope of Ecuador and the Choco to the Amazon-facing foothills of Caqueta in Colombia. Shaded, humid forest floor, often near streams; no more specific habitat notes are published.
Wild records run from 50 to 1350 m, median 1000 m; most Colombian records cluster around 1100 m in the Caqueta foothills.
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