Maranta incrassata
Maranta incrassata is a prayer plant of seasonal central Brazil and lowland Bolivia, collected in gallery and semideciduous forest, around limestone and rock outcrops and even in coastal scrub in Rio de Janeiro. Unlike the rainforest Marantaceae it lives through a long, cool, dry winter, and the thickened rhizome the name refers to lets it rest; at home it wants a drier, cooler winter and a warm, wet summer.
Where it grows wild
Records come from the Cerrado of Goias, Minas Gerais and the Federal District (including a cave-mouth site at a limestone quarry), Espirito Santo and coastal Rio de Janeiro, and the Chiquitano dry forests and Andean foothills of Santa Cruz, Tarija and La Paz in Bolivia. It grows on the floor of seasonal forest, gallery forest and rocky slopes.
Recorded from 20 to 1,934 m, median about 470 m; the highest sites are in the Bolivian Andean foothills.
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