Overview
Goeppertia neoviedii (Petersen) Borchs. & S.Suárez is an accepted species in the family Marantaceae, placed within the genus Goeppertia Nees. The GBIF Backbone Taxonomy records the accepted name under key 8102659 [4], and Plants of the World Online, maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, lists the species as accepted within Goeppertia Nees [3].
Goeppertia is the largest genus in Marantaceae, encompassing an estimated 260 accepted species [2]. The great majority of those species, including Goeppertia neoviedii, were transferred from Calathea G.Mey. following molecular phylogenetic analysis demonstrating that Calathea as previously circumscribed was polyphyletic [2]. The registry records this species as in cultivation, with the pre-2012 synonym Calathea neoviedii Petersen remaining in continued horticultural use in the trade [4].
No International Cultivar Registration Authority has been appointed for Marantaceae. The International Society for Horticultural Science lists no ICRA for the family or for the genus Goeppertia [5]. No cultivars of Goeppertia neoviedii are documented in the registry.
Nomenclature and synonymy
The accepted name Goeppertia neoviedii (Petersen) Borchs. & S.Suárez rests on a basionym published by Otto Georg Petersen in 1890: Calathea neoviedii Petersen, appearing in his treatment of Marantaceae within Flora Brasiliensis, volume 3, part 3, pages 81 to 172, edited by C.F.P. von Martius, A.G. Eichler and I. Urban [1]. The work was a systematic treatment of the Brazilian flora, and Petersen's Marantaceae contribution established the original description on which all subsequent nomenclature depends. Because Petersen's epithet is the source carried forward, the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants requires his authorship to be enclosed in parentheses in the recombination.
The transfer to Goeppertia was effected by Finn Borchsenius, Santiago Suárez and Larry M. Prince in 2012, as part of 246 new combinations published in Systematic Botany 37(3): 620–635 [2]. That paper demonstrated through molecular phylogenetic analysis that Calathea G.Mey. as previously circumscribed was polyphyletic, and resurrected Goeppertia Nees to accommodate the larger part of the former genus. The 2012 paper is the primary record establishing the current accepted name and its authorship [2].
The following names resolve to this species in the registry:
- Goeppertia neoviedii (Petersen) Borchs. & S.Suárez, the accepted epithet, confirmed by the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (key 8102659) and Plants of the World Online [3][4]
- Calathea neoviedii Petersen, a synonym and the basionym published in 1890 in Flora Brasiliensis, documented as in continued horticultural use in the trade [4]
No further synonyms are recorded in the registry at the time this page was compiled.
Description
The diagnostic characters of Goeppertia neoviedii at the species level are contained in Petersen's 1890 protologue in Flora Brasiliensis 3(3): 81–172 [1]. No post-2012 morphological revision specifically restating the species circumscription has been located from approved primary sources within the scope of this search.
Goeppertia neoviedii is one of an estimated 260 accepted species in Goeppertia Nees [2]. The genus was recircumscribed in 2012 by Borchsenius, Suárez and Prince, who demonstrated polyphyly in Calathea G.Mey. and resurrected Goeppertia to encompass those species placed in the subgeneric groupings formalised by Schumann (1902), with the exception of Calathea subgenus Calathea Körnicke [2]. Species transferred into Goeppertia under that revision share the synapomorphies that define the recircumscribed genus, including simple inflorescences and corolla lobes straight to spreading, as described in the Phytotaxa literature on nomenclatural notes and typification in Marantaceae [1].
Limited authoritative sources available; further research needed.
Distribution
Goeppertia neoviedii is a Brazilian taxon, described within Petersen's 1890 treatment of Marantaceae in Flora Brasiliensis, a systematic work treating the plant flora of Brazil [1]. The registry fields for native range and habitat carry null values at the time this page was compiled, and no species-specific distribution statement has been retrieved from the Plants of the World Online record or from GBIF for this taxon in the sources available for this brief [3][4].
The genus Goeppertia as a whole is concentrated in rainforest habitats of South and Central America, with species recorded primarily in the wet tropical biome, as documented in the Borchsenius, Suárez and Prince (2012) revision and across POWO species entries [2][3]. These genus-level statements are not a substitute for a species-specific range statement for Goeppertia neoviedii.
Limited authoritative sources available; further research needed.
In cultivation
The registry records in_cultivation as true for Goeppertia neoviedii. The GBIF Backbone Taxonomy documents the synonym Calathea neoviedii Petersen as being in continued horticultural use, indicating that the plant circulates in trade most commonly under the pre-2012 name [4].
In the broader genus, Borchsenius, Suárez and Prince (2012) characterise Goeppertia species as concentrated in the rainforest habitats of South and Central America [2], and Plants of the World Online records multiple species in the genus as herbaceous perennials of the wet tropical biome [3]. These genus-level characterisations from primary literature are not a substitute for species-specific cultivation documentation.
No publication from a botanical garden, herbarium, or university extension service with editorial oversight has been retrieved that documents cultivation requirements, propagation practice, or ex-situ conservation status specifically for Goeppertia neoviedii. Limited authoritative sources available; further research needed.
No cultivars of Goeppertia neoviedii are documented in the registry. Because no International Cultivar Registration Authority has been appointed for Marantaceae [5], no formal register of cultivar epithets for any species in the genus exists. The International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants governs the formation of valid cultivar epithets, requiring enclosure in single quotation marks among other formation rules, but compliance and registration require an appointed authority that has not been designated for this family.