''Goeppertia veitchiana'' (syn. ''Calathea veitchiana'') is a species of flowering plant in the
Marantaceae family. It is
endemic to
Ecuador.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist
montane forests.
The plant was discovered near
Cuenca by the
Victorian
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plant collector Richard Pearce in 1862, and named in honour of his employers,
James Veitch & Sons.
Similar species
In 1983, a new species of ''Calathea'' was described from Peru, that, although not closely related to ''C.veitchiana'', shows the same leaf pattern and had been previously misidentified in collections as ''C.veitchiana''. This new species was named ''Calathea pseudoveitchiana'', and is now ''
Goeppertia pseudoveitchiana
''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 i ...
''.
References
veitchiana
Endemic flora of Ecuador
Veitch Nurseries
Near threatened plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
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