Goeppertia rodeckiana

Goeppertia rodeckiana (K.Schum.) Borchs. & S.Suárez is an accepted species in the family Marantaceae, placed within the genus Goeppertia Nees. The GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (dataset d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c) records this species at key 9374091, with the taxonomic placement: kingdom Plantae, phylum Tracheophyta, class Liliopsida, order Zingiberales, and family Marantaceae [1]. The GBIF Backbone Taxonomy recognises Goeppertia as a genus encompassing an estimated 260 species, all within Marantaceae [1].

The species was originally described by Karl Moritz Schumann, who published the basionym Calathea rodeckiana K.Schum. in 1902. It was subsequently transferred to Goeppertia by Flemming Borchsenius, Sarai Suárez, and Liz Prince in 2012, following a molecular phylogenetic revision that demonstrated Calathea G.Mey. as previously circumscribed was polyphyletic [2]. The registry records this species as in cultivation, and no cultivars are currently recorded for it.

The accepted name is Goeppertia rodeckiana (K.Schum.) Borchs. & S.Suárez, as confirmed by the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy at key 9374091 [1]. The parenthetical authority (K.Schum.) denotes Karl Moritz Schumann as the author of the basionym, in conformance with the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, which requires the original author to be cited in parentheses when a taxon is transferred to a new genus.

The basionym is Calathea rodeckiana K.Schum., which Schumann published in 1902 in his Marantaceae monograph within H.G.A. Engler (ed.), Das Pflanzenreich, IV, 48 [2]. That monograph constituted the primary comprehensive treatment of Marantaceae at the time of publication and is the work in which the species epithet rodeckiana was first validly established. The GBIF Backbone Taxonomy treats Calathea rodeckiana K.Schum. as a synonym of the accepted Goeppertia rodeckiana [1].

The transfer from Calathea to Goeppertia was effected by Borchsenius, Suárez and Prince in their paper published in September 2012 in Systematic Botany 37(3): 620–635 [2]. That paper published 246 new combinations transferring accepted Calathea species into Goeppertia Nees, the oldest available name for the clade that the molecular evidence resolved as the genus-level unit. The combination Goeppertia rodeckiana (K.Schum.) Borchs. & S.Suárez was among the 246 combinations published in that revision [2].

Borchsenius, Suárez and Prince are accordingly the authors of the new combination; Schumann remains the author of the underlying species concept. The name Calathea rodeckiana continues to appear in horticultural contexts, as is documented for most species in this genus where the Calathea epithet was commercially established prior to the 2012 revision.

The registry records two names for this species: Goeppertia rodeckiana (K.Schum.) Borchs. & S.Suárez as the accepted epithet, and Calathea rodeckiana K.Schum. as a synonym, both prose-citable [1][2].

Schumann's 1902 monograph treated Calathea as a large Neotropical genus characterised by asymmetric flowers with a single fertile stamen and a fleshy staminode, and by nyctinastic leaf movements associated with a specialised pulvinus at the base of each leaf blade [2]. These family-level and genus-level characters, documented in Das Pflanzenreich IV, 48, form the descriptive framework within which Calathea rodeckiana was originally circumscribed.

The 2012 revision by Borchsenius, Suárez and Prince that transferred the species to Goeppertia reframed generic limits on the basis of molecular phylogenetic evidence and confirmed that the clade containing rodeckiana belongs to the group for which Goeppertia Nees is the oldest available name [2]. That revision did not provide a redescription of individual species.

No morphological description or diagnostic character statement specific to Goeppertia rodeckiana has been retrieved from an authoritative prose-citable source within the scope of this research. Limited authoritative sources available; further research needed.

The registry records native range and habitat as null for this species [1]. Borchsenius, Suárez and Prince documented Goeppertia as a Neotropical clade in their 2012 revision, situating the genus within the broader Marantaceae distribution across the New World tropics [2]. Country-level distribution data for Goeppertia rodeckiana specifically was not retrieved from an authoritative prose-citable source within the scope of this research.

Limited authoritative sources available; further research needed.

The registry records in_cultivation as true for this species [1]. As a member of Goeppertia Nees, a genus that the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy documents as encompassing approximately 260 Marantaceae species native to the New World tropics, Goeppertia rodeckiana shares the family characteristics of rhizomatous perennial growth and the nyctinastic leaf movements that the Schumann monograph of 1902 described for the genus [1][2]. That family-level context does not constitute species-level documentation of cultivation for rodeckiana specifically.

No botanical garden publication, herbarium-associated note, or university extension document specifically addressing the cultivation of Goeppertia rodeckiana has been located within the scope of this research. Limited authoritative sources available; further research needed.

No International Cultivar Registration Authority has been appointed for Marantaceae. The genus Goeppertia and the family Marantaceae are not listed among the genera and families for which the International Society for Horticultural Science has appointed a registration authority. There is accordingly no central register of cultivar names for Goeppertia rodeckiana or for any other species in this genus.

The International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants requires a cultivar epithet to be enclosed in single quotation marks and to satisfy the publication conditions set out in that code. In the absence of an appointed authority for Marantaceae, no body currently holds a formal mandate to adjudicate compliance, maintain a searchable register, or rule on the validity of epithets proposed for species in this genus.

The registry records no cultivars for this species [1]. No cultivar names associated with Goeppertia rodeckiana have been located in authoritative sources within the scope of this research.