Maranta parvifolia
Maranta parvifolia is a small-leaved Maranta of the Brazilian cerrado, recorded chiefly on the Planalto Central around Brasília and Goiás at 900 to 1300 m, with lowland records in Mato Grosso and Tocantins. It lives with a warm wet summer and a long, cool, very dry winter, so unlike the rainforest Maranta it expects a distinct dry rest with cooler nights, and it resents being kept wet and warm all year.
Where it grows wild
Cerrado landscape: gallery forest margins, cerradão (dense woodland) and seasonally moist forest patches on the Planalto Central, where a small-leaved rhizomatous Maranta hides in the litter of shaded but not deeply dark sites.
Twenty-two records run from 276 to 1334 m, median 975 m; most are on the Brasília plateau at 1000 to 1100 m, with lower sites in Mato Grosso around 150 to 300 m.
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