Maranta humilis
Maranta humilis is a small, widespread prayer plant of the Guianas and the Amazon basin, most often collected in French Guiana in secondary forest, along roads and trails, and on the forested slopes around granite outcrops. It is a lowland plant of steady warmth and high humidity that tolerates brighter, more disturbed sites than most Marantaceae.
Where it grows wild
Collector notes describe secondary forest, disturbed logging roads, terra firme forest on clay or sand, open palm forest on hilly ground and well-lit lower slopes with granite outcrops. It grows on the forest floor and along edges, in shade to broken light.
Recorded from sea level to 530 m, median about 200 m.
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