Maranta bachemiana
Maranta bachemiana hort. ex Petersen is a nineteenth-century nursery name, not one of the 54 species accepted today, and no wild collection exists under it. Most plants sold as Maranta bachemiana are Goeppertia bachemiana (Calathea bachemiana), a low Brazilian Atlantic forest species with silver-grey leaves marked in dark green; GBIF keeps the nursery name separate only because Petersen's 1890 listing lacks Morren's basionym. 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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