'Silver Plate' · ← Goeppertia Updated 2026-08-14

GOEPPERTIA

Goeppertia bachemiana 'Silver Plate'

A trade-named selection of Goeppertia bachemiana with no documented originator, patent, or registration authority on record.

Overview

The cultivar name 'Silver Plate' is applied, in trade use, to a selection of Goeppertia bachemiana (É.Morren) Borchs. & S.Suárez, a species in the family Marantaceae. Plants of the World Online records the accepted name with IPNI identifier urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60458927-2, and records the native range as Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) in the wet tropical biome [2].

The parent species was originally described by Édouard Morren under the basionym Calathea bachemiana É.Morren. The combination transferring the species into Goeppertia Nees was published by Borchsenius, Suárez and Prince in 2012, as part of a molecular revision of Marantaceae that produced 246 new combinations moving species from Calathea G.Mey. into Goeppertia, after demonstrating that Calathea as previously circumscribed was polyphyletic [3]. Plants of the World Online records Calathea bachemiana É.Morren as a synonym of the accepted name [2].

No formal diagnostic description of the cultivar 'Silver Plate' has been located in any peer-reviewed source, plant patent, or registration authority record. Limited authoritative sources available; further research needed.

Names and Name Classes

The International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP) requires that a cultivar epithet be enclosed in single quotation marks and not italicised [1]. The correct rendering is therefore 'Silver Plate', not Silver Plate and not Silver Plate without marks.

Registered epithet: 'Silver Plate' is recorded in the Digital Towns registry as a cultivar epithet applied to Goeppertia bachemiana. Because no International Cultivar Registration Authority has been appointed for Marantaceae [1], the epithet has not been registered against any formal cultivar register and cannot be confirmed as unique under ICNCP provisions.

Trade designation: No trade designation distinct from the cultivar epithet 'Silver Plate' has been located in any primary record consulted. No separate marketing name or trademark has been identified.

Patent denomination: No plant patent denomination has been located for this selection. The registry field patent_number is null. Limited authoritative sources available; further research needed.

Origin and Authorship

No originator is documented. This cultivar predates any registration authority for Marantaceae.

The registry records the originator field as null and sets originator_unknown to true. No plant patent naming an inventor for this selection has been located in USPTO records. No registration record at any cultivar registration authority has been located, as no International Cultivar Registration Authority has been appointed for Marantaceae [1]. No dated record establishing a first use of the name 'Silver Plate' with a named originator has been located in the course of this research pass.

The year of establishment, place of origin, parentage (seed parent and pollen parent), and derivation are all undocumented. Limited authoritative sources available; further research needed.

Registration Context

No International Cultivar Registration Authority has been appointed for Marantaceae. The Commission Cultivar Registration of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) is responsible for appointing ICRAs and monitoring their work; no appointment covering Marantaceae or its constituent genera, including Goeppertia Nees, appears in the ISHS commission listings [1].

The Aroid Cultivar Registry records the International Aroid Society as the ICRA for Araceae, with the exception of the genera Calla L. and Zantedeschia Spreng. [5]. Marantaceae is a distinct family in the order Zingiberales and falls outside that denomination class.

In the absence of an appointed ICRA, there is no formal register against which 'Silver Plate' can be checked for name uniqueness under ICNCP provisions. Digital Towns is an applicant and an aggregator; it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or accredited by ISHS or any appointed ICRA.

Documentation

The taxonomic foundation for this page rests on two primary records. Plants of the World Online provides the accepted name, IPNI identifier, basionym, native range and habit for the parent species [2]. The 2012 paper by Borchsenius, Suárez and Prince in Systematic Botany 37(3): 620-635 provides the published authority for the transfer of this species from Calathea into Goeppertia and for the broader circumscription of the genus [3].

No primary record documenting the cultivar 'Silver Plate' specifically has been located: no plant patent, no registration authority entry, no protologue, and no peer-reviewed cultivar description. The Digital Towns registry entry for this cultivar is based on trade-use nomenclatural evidence only. Limited authoritative sources available; further research needed.

Registry record

The entries below are the registry rows this article is written from. Each carries its own source, its role, and both dates. A row recorded as nomenclatural evidence is dated documentation of a name in use and is never cited in the prose above.

Registry card

Goeppertia bachemiana 'Silver Plate' is a trade-named horticultural selection of Goeppertia bachemiana (É.Morren) Borchs. & S.Suárez, a species in the family Marantaceae native to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. No originator, plant patent, registration record, or formal diagnostic description has been located for this cultivar.

Genus
Goeppertia
Species
bachemiana
Classification
not recorded
Originator
not documented
Established
not documented
Patent
none on record

Name classes

Three name classes with three different legal statuses attach to a cultivated plant: the registered cultivar epithet (governed by the ICNCP, printed in single quotes), any trade designation (a marketing name or trademark, never printed in single quotes), and the patent denomination (the name as published in a plant patent). Conflating them is the most common error in horticultural writing, and it is the one this registry exists to prevent.

NameClassSource
Silver Plate Accepted evidence only Digital Towns registry — name in trade use, source verification pending (2026-08-11)
Placeholder record. No authoritative source for this cultivar has been located; Marantaceae has no ICRA and no register. Not citable in prose and does not count toward the indexing threshold. To be replaced by a sourced record from the USPTO -> journals -> dated-catalog research pass.

Origin and parentage

This registry has not located significant documentation to substantiate the origin of this name. No originator, introduction date, or registration record has been found in any source examined — no cultivar registration authority exists for Marantaceae that could have recorded one.

No independent dated documentation has been located to date. What this registry holds is its own record of the name in commercial use, 2026-08-11 — not third-party documentation.

This record is maintained openly and updates as documentation is located. Documented evidence of this cultivar's origin — dated catalogues, listings, or publications — can be submitted for verification.

Patent and propagation status

No plant patent is recorded for this cultivar in this registry. That is not the same as a positive finding that none exists: absence here means we have not located one.

See an error, or have documentation we lack? Submissions open shortly. Corrections are reviewed against documentation before the record changes.

Sources

  1. International Society for Horticultural Science — Commission Cultivar Registration: International Cultivar Registration Authorities (n.d.). International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS). https://ishs.org/scientific-structure/cmnr-cultivar-registration/ Accessed 2026-08-14.
  2. Goeppertia bachemiana (É.Morren) Borchs. & S.Suárez — Plants of the World Online, IPNI identifier urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60458927-2 (n.d.). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew — Plants of the World Online. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60458927-2 Accessed 2026-08-14.
  3. Borchsenius, F., Suárez, L.S.S. & Prince, M.L. (2012). Molecular phylogeny and redefined generic limits of Calathea (Marantaceae). Systematic Botany 37(3): 620–635. (2012-01-01). American Society of Plant Taxonomists — Systematic Botany. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364412X648571 Accessed 2026-08-14.
  4. About — Aroid Cultivar Registry: International Aroid Society as ICRA for Araceae, appointed by ISHS (n.d.). International Aroid Society. https://www.aroidcultivars.org/about Accessed 2026-08-14.

DIGITAL TOWNS REGISTRY · PLANTS · REVIEWED 2026-08-14