Loading AI tools
Genus of Marantaceae plants From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Goeppertia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Marantaceae, native to the New World Tropics.[1] It contains 243 accepted species, many of which were until recently[2] assigned to Calathea.[1] It was first described by Nees von Esenbeck in 1831, who erroneously erected another genus Goeppertia in 1836, which has now been synonymized with Endlicheria.[3] In 1862 August Grisebach described another genus Goeppertia; this has now been synonymized with Bisgoeppertia.[4]
| Goeppertia | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Goeppertia burle-marxii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Zingiberales |
| Family: | Marantaceae |
| Genus: | Goeppertia Nees, 1831[1] |
| Species | |
|
See text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
| |
The genus name of Goeppertia is in honour of Heinrich Göppert (1800–1884), a German botanist and paleontologist.[5]
Goeppertia can be easily distinguished from Calathea by the rosette-shaped flowers on Goeppertia, where Calathea has more of a ladder structure for its blooms.[citation needed]
The following species are accepted:[1]
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
