Marcgravia glandulosomarginata
A Costa Rican Marcgravia described by Barry Hammel in 2006, named for the glandular leaf margins, and recorded mainly in premontane and lower montane wet forest on the Pacific slope of the Talamanca range between about 1000 and 1650 m. It is a cooler-growing member of the genus than most, which makes it a good candidate for a temperate or lightly heated terrarium. It climbs tree trunks as a shingling juvenile in shade.
Where it grows wild
Premontane and lower montane wet forest, climbing shaded trunks in humid, often cloud-touched forest of the Pacific Talamanca slope near Cerro Nara and the upper Savegre valley. Two Colombian records extend the range but are far from the Costa Rican core.
300–1650 m recorded, median 1360 m; the bulk of records are between 1000 and 1500 m.
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