Maranta longiflora
Maranta longiflora is a cerrado species described in 2008 from the plateaus where Tocantins, Bahia, Maranhão and Piauí meet, at 350 to 800 m. It grows through a hot wet summer and sits out a severe five-month dry season with humidity near 40 percent, so it is a tuberous, deciduous plant that wants a real dry rest rather than a year-round humid cabinet.
Where it grows wild
Wild records come from the cerrado and cerradão (savanna woodland) of the Serra Geral de Goiás and the Jalapão region, on sandy plateau soils. Marantas of the cerrado grow in the grass and shrub layer or under the light canopy of cerradão and gallery-forest edges, dying back to a tuberous rootstock in the dry season.
Recorded at 350 to 800 m, median 545 m (20 records): the sandstone plateaus of the central Brazilian cerrado.
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