Calathea platystachya
Calathea platystachya is a species of plant from the genus Calathea in the Marantaceae family. It is endemic to Costa Rica.
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Description
Calathea platystachya is a tall plant (around 2 to 4 meters when mature) with very long, huge green leaves, with long green petioles and a long pulvinus. The inflorescence of Calathea platystachya is made of multiple distichious bracts around a thick, green peduncle. The bracts are green with a characterizing white wax on the surface of each bracts. The flowers are small and orange.
== References ==
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 933529.