''Goeppertia louisae'' (syn. ''Calathea louisae'') is a species of plant belonging to 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 ...

'', native to

Rio de Janeiro state Rio de Janeiro () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil. It has the second largest economy of Brazil, with the largest being that of the state of São Paulo. The state, which has 8.2% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for 9.2% of ...

of southeast Brazil but cultivated in other places as an ornamental.Gagnepain, François. 1908. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 55: xlii, ''Calathea louisae''
/ref>Borchsenius Kristensen, Finn & Suárez, Stella. 2012. Systematic Botany 37(3): 632, ''Goeppertia louisae'' ''Goeppertia louisae'' is an herb up to 80 cm tall. Leaf blades are up to 22 cm long, 10 cm wide, with two different shades of green running in stripes from the costa to the margins.

References

louisae Endemic flora of Brazil Flora of Southeast Brazil Garden plants Plants described in 1908 {{Zingiberales-stub