Marcgravia brachysepala
A Jamaican endemic root-climber known from only a handful of wild collections in the island's central limestone hills. Almost nothing beyond the original description is published, so grow it as a warm, humid shingling Marcgravia of Caribbean wet limestone forest, with a slightly drier late winter.
Where it grows wild
Records cluster at around 600 m in the wet limestone forest of central Jamaica (Cockpit Country and the Manchester uplands), where the genus climbs tree trunks and mossy rock as a flattened shingling juvenile before producing free adult shoots. Habitat detail is inferred from the collection sites and the genus, not from a published account.
Only two localities, both around 600 m; the true range on the island is unknown.
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