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Reldia calcarata is a little-known gesneriad from the African violet family, endemic to Ecuador and found in moist montane forests. Care information is sparse, so treat it like other cool, humid cloud-forest gesneriads: bright shade and steady moisture.
Reldia calcarata is a species of plant in the family Gesneriaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Reldia calcarata 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.
