Goeppertia veitchiana

Goeppertia veitchiana (syn. Calathea veitchiana) is a species of flowering plant in the Marantaceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador.[2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Goeppertia veitchiana
Illustration from Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe by Louis van Houtte, 1865–1867
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Marantaceae
Genus: Goeppertia
Species:
G. veitchiana
Binomial name
Goeppertia veitchiana
(Veitch ex Hook.f.) Borchs. & S.Suárez
Synonyms[2]
  • Calathea veitchiana Veitch ex Hook.f.
  • Calathea veitchiana var. foxii Raffill
  • Maranta veitchiana (Veitch ex Hook.f.) Van Houtte
  • Phyllodes veitchiana (Veitch ex Hook.f.) Kuntze

The plant was discovered near Cuenca by the Victorian plant collector Richard Pearce in 1862, and named in honour of his employers, James Veitch & Sons.[3]

Similar species

In 1983 a new species of Calathea was described from Peru, that, although not closely related to C. veitchiana, shows the same leaf pattern and had been previously misidentified in collections as C. veitchiana. This new species was named Calathea pseudoveitchiana, and is now Goeppertia pseudoveitchiana.[4]

References
  1. Muriel, P.; Pitman, N. (2004). "Calathea veitchiana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T45650A11009785. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T45650A11009785.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. "Goeppertia veitchiana (Veitch ex Hook.f.) Borchs. & S.Suárez". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  3. James Herbert Veitch (2006). Hortus Veitchii (reprint ed.). Caradoc Doy. p. 47. ISBN 0-9553515-0-2.
  4. Helen Kennedy (1983). "A pattern mimic of Calathea veitchiana from Peru (Marantaceae)". Canadian Journal of Botany. 61 (5): 1429–1434. doi:10.1139/b83-154.


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