Maranta lorifolia
Maranta lorifolia is a strap-leaved herb described in 2021 from the Recôncavo region of Bahia, north-eastern Brazil, where all wild records come from a small area around Cruz das Almas at up to 580 m. It lives in a warm, only moderately humid climate with a mild, drier winter, so it is easier in a house than the Amazonian Marantaceae but still wants shade and even moisture.
Where it grows wild
A herb of the shaded understory of remnant Atlantic and semideciduous forest in the Recôncavo Baiano, an agricultural landscape of forest fragments and shaded plantations. Species-specific habitat notes were not reachable; the microhabitat is inferred from the genus in this region.
Recorded at 0 to 580 m, median 345 m (12 records); the single climate site sits at 345 m.
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