Sinningia elatior
A tall, tuberous gesneriad with spikes of red tubular flowers, widespread in moist open grasslands, marshy campos and stream margins across central and southern South America. It grows hard in the warm wet summer and dies back to its tuber in the cooler, drier winter, so growers should give it bright light and a dry winter rest.
Where it grows wild
Open, seasonally wet grassland, marsh edges, cerrado wet spots and streamside vegetation, usually among tall grasses rather than under closed forest. Based on the measured records and the genus; species-specific habitat notes are thin.
Recorded from near sea level to about 1,860 m, median about 850 m, mostly on the Brazilian plateau.
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