Goeppertia truncata
Goeppertia truncata (originally Maranta truncata, described in the early nineteenth century) is an Atlantic forest prayer plant of south-eastern Brazil, recorded from lowland Espirito Santo, northern Rio de Janeiro state and inland Minas Gerais. It lives in warm forest with a marked dry winter, so it accepts a cooler, drier rest period that wet-forest Goeppertia would resent.
Where it grows wild
A rhizomatous herb of the shaded floor of lowland and tabuleiro Atlantic forest and semi-deciduous forest inland, growing under closed canopy in leaf litter. Nothing beyond collection localities is published for this species; the habitat generalises from Atlantic-forest Goeppertia.
Wild records with elevation lie between 92 and 239 m near the coast, with inland Minas Gerais sites at 570 to 660 m.
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