Description
Staurogyne repens is a light green compact strong plant for the aquarium foreground originating from Rio Cristalino in Brazil. It can be used as ground-covering plant or as low cushion-like bush. Forms well through trimming. It is effective for setting accents in crevices and gaps in the hardscape. If you get a plant with long stems from emerged cultivation you ought to cut them off, cut them into several parts and plant them into the substrate, keeping a small distance. The lateral shoots that form in this case will grow more or less horizontally along the substrate. A lot of light (at least 0.5 W/litre) and a good CO2 and nutrient supply are recommendable.
Source
Flowgrow
Characteristic
Compact carpet or bush
Very nice between rocks and stones
Relatively slow grower
Very popular in aquascaping
Synonyms
Ebermaiera repens Nees
Complete Botanical Name
Staurogyne répens (Nees) Kuntze
Family
Acanthaceae
Genus
Staurogyne
Category
Foreground
Difficulty
medium
Growth
medium
Carbon Dioxide
need
pH Value
5-7
Temperature Tolerance
20-30℃
Carbonate Hardness
0-10 dKH
General Hardness
0-30 °dGH
Propagation
Runners, Cuttings, Splitting, Cutting off daughter plants
Can Grow Emersed?
yes
Aquascaping
well-branched, bushy
