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Ctenanthe amabilis (É.Morren) H.Kenn. & Nicolson

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Marantaceae · Brazil Southeast · listed by its genus as a tropical foliage plant

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Summary

Ctenanthe amabilis, called the beautiful ctenanthe, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Ctenanthe, likely native to Brazil, and introduced into Costa Rica. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as a subtropical hothouse ornamental.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ctenanthe amabilis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Ctenanthe

Ctenanthe is a genus of flowering plants of the family Marantaceae described as a genus in 1884. They are evergreen perennials, native to Central and South America. They are grown for their attractive, often variegated foliage. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ctenanthe", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Ctenanthe in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial”, “wet tropical”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Ctenanthe in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial”, “wet tropical”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeBrazil Southeast · introduced: Costa Rica · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range, and all 7 georeferenced records read lie outside it: the range and the records disagree. They are not used, and no map marker or climate is derived from them.

Photographs

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Photographs: David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Ctenanthe 8 in the reference

Ctenanthe burle-marxii Ctenanthe burle-marxii Fishbone Prayer Plant Photo: CC BY, DoreenCtenanthe compressa Ctenanthe compressa Marantaceae Photo: Public domain, DaderotCtenanthe dasycarpa Ctenanthe dasycarpa Marantaceae Photo: CC BY, Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada Ctenanthe kummeriana Marantaceae Ctenanthe lubbersiana Ctenanthe lubbersiana Marantaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedCtenanthe marantifolia Ctenanthe marantifolia Marantaceae Photo: CC BY, Bruno SiqueiraCtenanthe oppenheimiana Ctenanthe oppenheimiana Never-never-plant Photo: CC BY, Júlio CastellainCtenanthe setosa Ctenanthe setosa Never Never Plant Photo: CC BY-SA, Cesar ventura loose

Names & registers

Also known as Stromanthe amabilis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Marantaceae
Described by
(É.Morren) H.Kenn. & Nicolson
Native to
Brazil Southeast
Wild records
none in range · 7 outside it

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 3 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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