Maranta friedrichsthaliana
Maranta friedrichsthaliana is one of the more widespread wild Maranta, a lowland rainforest herb ranging from Guatemala and Costa Rica through Colombia to the Guianas and northern Brazil. It grows on the shaded, wet forest floor and along streams and trails from sea level to about 1200 m, in a climate that is warm and humid all year with only a short, mild drier season, so at home it wants steady warmth, high humidity and no real dry rest.
Where it grows wild
Terrestrial herb of the understory of lowland and premontane wet forest, often along streams, in secondary forest and at shaded trail edges, rooted in moist leaf litter over clay or alluvial soil.
Recorded from 0 to 1200 m, median 280 m from 53 records; most Costa Rican records are in the Caribbean-slope foothills of Alajuela, the South American ones in lowland Amazonian and Guianan forest.
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