Goeppertia tuberosa
Goeppertia tuberosa (originally Thalia tuberosa, described by Vellozo from Rio de Janeiro) is a coastal Atlantic forest prayer plant of Espirito Santo and Rio de Janeiro state, recorded from restinga scrub and tabuleiro forest below 200 m. As the name suggests it forms tuberous root swellings, a sign that it is adapted to sandy, seasonally dry ground; it takes brighter light and a drier winter than most of the genus.
Where it grows wild
A rhizomatous, tuber-rooted herb of the shaded floor and edges of coastal restinga forest and lowland tabuleiro forest on sandy soils, from the Linhares plain in Espirito Santo south to the restingas of the Rio de Janeiro lakes district. Its tubers store water for the dry winter.
Wild records lie between 9 and 220 m, median about 50 m, on the coastal plain.
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