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Goeppertia bachemiana (É.Morren) Borchs. & S.Suárez

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

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About the genus · Goeppertia

Goeppertia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Marantaceae, native to the New World Tropics. It contains 243 accepted species, many of which were until recently assigned to Calathea. 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. More on Wikipedia ›

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

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Goeppertia 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 Goeppertia 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 · 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 records inside the stated native range.

Photographs

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Photographs: Maja Dumat, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Goeppertia 48 in the reference

Goeppertia aemula Marantaceae Goeppertia albertii Goeppertia albertii Marantaceae Photo: CC BY, Diogo LuizGoeppertia allouia Goeppertia allouia Guinea arrowroot Photo: CC0, author not stated Goeppertia argyraea Marantaceae Goeppertia argyrophylla Goeppertia argyrophylla Marantaceae Photo: CC BY, B. PhalanGoeppertia burle-marxii Goeppertia burle-marxii Marantaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, KENPEIGoeppertia concinna Goeppertia concinna Marantaceae Photo: CC BY, Magucination GuzmánGoeppertia crocata Goeppertia crocata Eternal Flame Photo: CC BY, Martin VallejosGoeppertia cylindrica Goeppertia cylindrica Marantaceae Photo: CC BY, Victor Farjalla PontesGoeppertia ecuadoriana Goeppertia ecuadoriana Marantaceae Photo: CC BY, Frank DietzeGoeppertia elliptica Goeppertia elliptica Marantaceae Photo: CC BY, Gerry van TonderGoeppertia fasciata Goeppertia fasciata Marantaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz all 49 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Calathea bachemiana; Maranta bachemiana; Maranta kegeliana; Maranta regeliana; Phyllodes bachemiana. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Marantaceae
Described by
(É.Morren) Borchs. & S.Suárez
Native to
Brazil Southeast
Wild records
none in range

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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 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.

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