Maranta rupicola
Maranta rupicola, described by Andersson, is a herb of the Guiana Shield and eastern Brazil whose name means rock-dwelling: it is recorded from rocky forest, granite outcrops and stony stream banks in French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana and northern Brazil, with a second cluster along the Bahia to Pernambuco coast. It wants year-round warmth and humidity, shade and a sharply drained, moist root run.
Where it grows wild
Lowland humid forest of the Guianas at 0 to 700 m, typically among rocks and on shaded outcrops or stream margins where the shallow soil drains fast but is kept damp by the humid air. The measured climate is warm and wet in every month with a short, less rainy spell in September and October.
0 to 707 m, median 220 m from 67 records; lowland hills of the Guiana Shield and coastal eastern Brazil.
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