Maranta aurantiaca
Maranta aurantiaca hort. ex K.Koch is a nineteenth-century nursery name, not one of the 54 species accepted today, and no wild collection exists under it. Karl Koch published it from Berlin garden material in the 1860s; the epithet means orange, probably for the leaf underside or flowers, and the plant behind it has not been matched to any accepted species. 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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