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Goeppertia nidulans

Goeppertia nidulans
Photo: portioid, CC BY 4.0

Goeppertia nidulans is a rare wild species from the prayer-plant family, known only from lowland wet forest near Buenaventura in Colombia, and it is not in cultivation. Because little is documented, care advice is inferred from its tropical forest understorey habitat and related Goeppertia species.

Family
Marantaceae (Prayer-plant family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Bright indirect, Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist through the growing season and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-draining, rich, peat-based potting mix with added bark or perlite.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 15 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Colombia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Goeppertia nidulans is a rare species of plant in the genus Goeppertia of the family Marantaceae. The native range of this species is Colombia. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Where it grows

This species is native to Colombia. It only appears in a very specific area, near Buenaventura, in "Valle del Cauca". It grows in altitude around 20 to 400 m (66 to 1,312 ft). It is a rare species that is not in cultivation right now and can only be found in the wild.

Other Goeppertia plants

Goeppertia cylindrica · Goeppertia orbifolia · Goeppertia ornata · Calathea pallidicosta · Calathea paucifolia · Goeppertia picturata · Calathea roseobracteata · Goeppertia warszewiczii · Goeppertia albertii · Guinea Arrowroot · Goeppertia bantae · Goeppertia burle-marxii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Goeppertia nidulans by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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