Maranta bracteosa
Maranta bracteosa Petersen is a small herb of the Brazilian cerrado belt, with 45 wild records from the Federal District, Goiás, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Pará and Maranhão at 0 to 530 m. Its climate is two-faced: a warm wet season from October to April and a hot, bone-dry winter when rain stops and humidity falls below 40 percent, so unlike the rainforest prayer plants it expects a dry rest.
Where it grows wild
Cerrado savanna, its gallery forests and the transition to Amazonian forest in the north of the range. Cerrado Maranta grow from rhizomes in seasonally dry ground and typically die back to the rhizome in the dry season; the exact microhabitat of this species was not reachable and is inferred from the record sites.
Recorded from sea level to 530 m with a median of 249 m; the central Brazilian plateau sites sit around 450 to 800 m.
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