Maranta amplifolia
Maranta amplifolia is a large-leaved forest herb ranging from the Guianas and Venezuela across the Amazon to Bolivia and central Brazil, recorded from 90 to 500 m. Its measured range spans everything from ever-wet Amazon forest to the seasonal forests of Mato Grosso and the Bolivian lowlands, so it tolerates a drier, cooler winter better than most marantads, but it still wants shade, humidity and a moist medium.
Where it grows wild
A terrestrial understory herb of lowland humid forest, riverine and gallery forest, and the moist forests at the edge of the Bolivian and Brazilian savannas. The southern sites have a marked dry season from June to September with humidity falling to the sixties; the Amazonian and Guianan sites are wet year round.
Recorded at 89 to 500 m, median about 300 m; one climate site at 1454 m in the Bolivian Andes lies outside the recorded elevations and is probably a mislocated record.
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