Maranta mazellii
Maranta mazellii is a name from Nicholson's Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening (1885) for a Marantaceae then grown in Victorian stove houses; it has no wild records, no settled modern placement and is not in cultivation under this name. Conditions given are generic for a tropical American forest-floor Marantaceae.
Where it grows wild
A Victorian glasshouse name of uncertain application; the plant was a rainforest Marantaceae of tropical America, most likely Brazilian. No wild records or measured climate exist under this name, so the conditions below are those of a lowland to premontane rainforest understory herb of the Marantaceae.
No elevation data under this name; treated as a lowland to premontane forest plant.
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