Marcgravia nepenthoides
The best-known Central American Marcgravia, named for the large pitcher-like nectaries on its hanging flower umbels, which are visited by bats and hummingbirds. It is a common root-climbing liana of wet lowland and premontane forest from Veracruz and Belize to Panama and the Colombian Chocó, and its shingling juvenile stage, with small round leaves pressed flat to bark, is the form collectors grow.
Where it grows wild
Wet evergreen forest from sea level to about 1,750 m, most records below 500 m. Juveniles shingle on trunks in the shaded understory; adults climb into the mid-canopy and edges, where the free-hanging fertile branches flower.
0–1,750 m, median 276 m; mainly a lowland and foothill plant.
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