Maranta foliosa
Maranta foliosa is a little-known prayer-plant of the Atlantic Forest of south-eastern Brazil, recorded around Rio de Janeiro and lowland Espírito Santo, with one record from the dry interior of northern Minas Gerais. It is a warm-growing forest-floor herb that sees a real dry season from May to September, so it is more tolerant of a drier, slightly cooler winter than the Amazonian members of the family, but it still wants shade and steady warmth.
Where it grows wild
Understory herb of lowland and hill Atlantic rainforest and semideciduous forest, on shaded, litter-covered ground; Maranta in this landscape keep to damp forest floor, stream margins and forest edges rather than open sites.
Few records carry an elevation; the climate sites lie between 76 and 451 m, so treat it as a lowland-to-foothill species.
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