Goeppertia ursina
Goeppertia ursina (Calathea ursina) is a herb of the very wet lowland forests of the upper Amazon in Loreto, Peru, with outliers in Amazonian Ecuador and Colombia. Its range has one of the wettest, most even climates in the genus, so it wants constant warmth, near-saturated air and no dry rest. Little is published beyond the original description; this profile builds on the records and the genus.
Where it grows wild
By genus and locality, a terrestrial herb of the shaded floor of humid lowland Amazonian forest near Iquitos, in moist humus of terra firme and seasonally flooded forest edges. The epithet suggests dense hairs on the leaves or sheaths.
Recorded elevations 106 to 400 m, median 130 m: a true lowland plant, with a few foothill records in Ecuador up to 400 m.
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