Maranta nanica
Maranta nanica is a recently described dwarf Maranta from the Chapada dos Veadeiros region of northern Goiás in central Brazil, known from a handful of wild records at 360 to 730 m. It comes from the cerrado, where a strongly seasonal climate with a bone-dry winter is softened for the plant by the shade and seepage of gallery forest, so it is a small, shade-loving herb that expects a drier, cooler winter rather than year-round wet.
Where it grows wild
Cerrado landscape of northern Goiás, where Maranta keep to the moist microsites: gallery forest along streams, seasonally moist forest patches and shaded rock outcrops. The epithet means dwarf, so expect a low plant of the litter layer.
Six records at 364 to 727 m, median 460 m, on the flanks of the Chapada dos Veadeiros plateau.
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