Goeppertia trichoneura
Goeppertia trichoneura (formerly Calathea trichoneura, described by Helen Kennedy) is a Costa Rican endemic of cool, wet mountain forest, well collected around Tapanti, Braulio Carrillo and the Cordillera de Talamanca between 600 and 1750 m. It is a cloud-forest prayer plant that wants cool nights, saturated air and constant moisture, and it will struggle in a hot room.
Where it grows wild
An understory herb of premontane and lower montane wet forest and cloud forest on the Caribbean and Pacific slopes of Costa Rica's central and Talamanca ranges, growing on the shaded, mossy forest floor and along trails and stream banks in very wet forest. Its 100 wild records make it one of the better documented species in the genus.
Wild records run from 600 to 1750 m, median 1400 m; the bulk of collections are at 1300 to 1450 m.
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