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Goeppertia micans (L.Mathieu) Borchs. & S.Suárez

Marantaceae · Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest +16 · listed by its genus as a tropical foliage plant

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
19.8°C
Record low 17.4 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
29°C
Mar, Apr and Sep at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
3,125mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
26–32DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in the habitat's months, not shifted
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Rain spread: 70% of the median year's rain takes 8 months, so no short rainy season. rain rule, CHELSA
Not shifted: the shift rule does not apply to this habitat. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Goeppertia micans is a species of plant in the family Marantaceae. Its native range is Mexico to Tropical South America.

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

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”.

Seasons

The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (2,298 mm of 3,252 mm) takes 8 months, December to January, April to July and September to October. Mean temperature moves 0.6 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere. The temperature curve moves under 4 °C between the warmest and coldest month, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Rain

3,252 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,298 mm of it December to January, April to July and September to October. Wettest month May at 357 mm, driest month February at 222 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 2,108 mm to 4,631 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 3,125 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 3,252 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 26 to 32 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 22, the highest 90th-percentile month 39).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 19.8 °C, the absolute minimum 17.4 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.7 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 21.4 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 19.3 °C to 22.9 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.7 °C in March and April (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 19.8 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 67 to 71% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

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.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -934 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

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

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Goeppertia micans through the yearWarmest months March, April and September, mean daily high 29 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 21.4 °C; 3,252 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.15°20°25°30°35°40°34.7° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER17.4° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500600mm rainDLI 26–32RH 67–71%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 108 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C28 / 24–2928 / 25–2929 / 26–3029 / 27–3028 / 26–2928 / 25–2928 / 25–2928 / 25–3029 / 26–3128 / 25–3228 / 25–3128 / 24–29
Night °C22 / 18–2322 / 18–2322 / 19–2322 / 19–2322 / 20–2322 / 20–2321 / 19–2322 / 19–2322 / 19–2322 / 19–2322 / 19–2322 / 19–23
Rain mm263 / 84–398222 / 67–341247 / 53–342273 / 81–457357 / 131–550346 / 142–472274 / 116–477248 / 103–490255 / 63–485271 / 72–490237 / 117–500259 / 130–421
DLI28 / 24–3230 / 26–3431 / 28–3729 / 26–3927 / 24–3926 / 22–3528 / 24–3530 / 24–3732 / 25–3831 / 23–3829 / 22–3327 / 23–31
RH %68 / 65–7268 / 64–7267 / 62–7269 / 63–7371 / 65–7471 / 67–7570 / 66–7469 / 64–7370 / 63–7370 / 63–7470 / 66–7469 / 65–73
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 108 grid cells holding the 140 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 1666:2163 (6.675, -71.825). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 17.4 °C, 1st-percentile night 19.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.7 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 108 distinct grid cells holding 140 of the 140 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1666:2163 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 6.50_-71.875, lapse-corrected -934 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 414 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeMexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil North · 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).
Map marker10.43, -84.06 · in the densest population, 196 records (27% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 738 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 140 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 579 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 202 km away. 4 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 598 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 738 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: John Abrams, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; John Brew, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2); Michael A. Alcorn, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Costus scaber Costus scaber Indian head ginger Photo: CC BY, fmunozParadrymonia ciliosa Paradrymonia ciliosa Gesneriaceae Photo: CC BY, Guillaume DelaitrePalicourea racemosa Palicourea racemosa Rubiaceae Photo: CC BY, Guillaume DelaitrePassiflora auriculata Passiflora auriculata Passifloraceae Photo: CC BY, Danna Lizeth Guevara PrietoAnthurium gracile Anthurium gracile Red Pearls Anthurium Photo: CC BY, Letizia Weichgrebe Hyptis recurvata Lamiaceae

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 bachemiana Goeppertia bachemiana Marantaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, James SteakleyGoeppertia 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 Tonder all 49 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Calathea albicans; Calathea klugii; Calathea micans; Calathea micans var. amabilis; Calathea micans var. robustior and 10 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Marantaceae
Described by
(L.Mathieu) Borchs. & S.Suárez
Native to
Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast +15
Wild records
738 in range · 579 open

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; 6 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (5 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 6.50_-71.875, lapse-corrected -934 m at 6.5 °C/km
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 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 62 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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