Goeppertia venusta
Goeppertia venusta (Calathea venusta, described by Helen Kennedy) is a Central American herb of the wet Caribbean-slope forests of Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, most often collected in the Sarapiquà and Tortuguero lowlands. It comes from one of the wettest climates in the genus, with rain in every month and only a brief drier spell from January to March, so it wants constant warmth and very humid air.
Where it grows wild
By genus and the well-documented locality data, a terrestrial herb of the shaded floor of very wet lowland and premontane rainforest on the Caribbean slope, on moist humus-rich soil, often near streams and in swampy flats.
Recorded elevations 10 to 1,588 m with a median of 100 m: mainly a lowland plant, reaching premontane forest on the Cordillera de Guanacaste and Tilarán slopes.
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