Goeppertia warszewiczii
A Central American prayer plant, long sold as Calathea warscewiczii, with long, dark green, velvety leaves marked with a light green feathered band along the midrib, purple undersides and petioles, and cone-like white flower heads that turn purple with age. It grows on the floor of lowland rainforest, mostly on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica and Panama. It wants deep warmth, shade, high humidity and evenly moist soil.
Where it grows wild
A terrestrial herb in the understory of lowland moist and wet forest, growing in thin leaf humus over red volcanic clay, beside streams and in disturbed forest and old cacao groves. It is often confused with the hairier G. leucostachys in Costa Rica.
Recorded from 1 m to 815 m, median 100 m (93 records); a lowland plant.
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