Goeppertia verapax
Goeppertia verapax is a montane prayer plant named for the Alta Verapaz region of Guatemala, where John Donnell Smith described it as Calathea verapax; it is now known from the wet mountain forests of Guatemala and central Honduras at roughly 1,100 to 1,400 m. Unlike lowland Goeppertia it lives with cool nights of 14 to 18 C and a short, mild dry season, so it suits a cool, humid room or a cabinet with a real night drop.
Where it grows wild
A rhizomatous herb of the floor and lower understory of humid montane broadleaf forest and cloud-forest margins in the Central American highlands. Little is published beyond the original description; the habitat is inferred from the recorded sites and from related highland Goeppertia.
The three recorded sites with an altitude lie at 1,090, 1,300 and 1,400 m; most wild records carry no elevation.
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