Marcgravia crassiflora
A climbing Marcgravia of humid premontane forest on the eastern and western flanks of the Andes, known from few collections in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru. Adult plants climb into the canopy and carry large hanging flower clusters visited by hummingbirds such as the green-crowned brilliant. Little is recorded about it; the advice here draws on its forest habitat and on how other Marcgravia species grow.
Where it grows wild
Humid premontane and low montane forest, including disturbed forest and forest remnants, and lowland rainforest along rivers. Like other Marcgravia species it climbs trunks by clinging roots; young climbing shoots in the shaded understory differ from the leafy, flowering adult branches in the canopy.
Specimen labels give about 680–1015 m; Wikipedia describes it as a plant of subtropical or tropical moist montane areas of the Andes.
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