Goeppertia verecunda
Goeppertia verecunda is a rarely collected Panamanian prayer plant described by Helen Kennedy as Calathea verecunda, known from only three wild records between the Pacific coast east of Panama City and the wet hills around Cerro Azul. It comes from warm, humid forest with a short dry season, so it wants steady warmth, high humidity and no cold nights.
Where it grows wild
A rhizomatous understory herb of tropical wet and premontane forest in eastern Panama. Nothing beyond the original description is published; the habitat is inferred from the recorded sites and from other Kennedy species of the Cerro Azul and Cerro Jefe region.
The two placed records sit near sea level on the Pacific coast and at about 750 m in the Cerro Azul hills; few records carry an elevation.
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