Goeppertia wallisii
Goeppertia wallisii was introduced to Victorian glasshouses by Jean Linden as Maranta wallisii, collected by Gustav Wallis, and is a velvet-leaved prayer plant of the warm foothill forests of northern Peru, with a few records from southern Costa Rica. It comes from lowland to premontane forest at roughly 250 to 1,000 m that is warm year-round with only a mild seasonal rhythm, so it wants steady warmth, high humidity and shade.
Where it grows wild
A rhizomatous understory herb of humid lowland and premontane forest on the eastern Andean foothills, on shaded forest floor and stream banks. Beyond the horticultural introduction little is published; the habitat is inferred from the recorded sites and from related foothill Goeppertia.
Recorded elevations run from 225 to 1,000 m with a median of 400 m; the Peruvian records sit at 240 to 770 m and the Costa Rican one at 1,000 m.
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