Maranta asymetrica
Maranta asymetrica hort. ex Petersen is a nineteenth-century nursery name, not one of the 54 species accepted today, and no wild collection exists under it. Petersen listed it in 1896 from cultivated material, and GBIF also holds the spelling Maranta assymetrica W.Bull as doubtful, which points to a Bull nursery introduction of the 1870s to 1880s. Treat it as a shade-loving Neotropical prayer plant of humid forest floor and grow it like Maranta leuconeura.
Where it grows wild
No habitat is recorded for this name. Maranta as a genus are rhizomatous, clump-forming herbs of the humid forest floor and stream banks of tropical South and Central America, and the trade names of this period were nearly all Brazilian rainforest plants.
Unknown. Cultivated prayer plants of this era were lowland to foothill collections, roughly 0 to 800 m.
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