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Goeppertia

{{short description|Genus of Marantaceae plants}}

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|taxon=Goeppertia

|authority=Nees, 1831

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|subdivision=See text

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  • Endocodon Raf.
  • Monostiche Körn.
  • Psydaranta Neck. ex Raf.
  • Thymocarpus Nicolson, Steyerm. & Sivad.
  • Zelmira Raf.

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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{{cite journal |last1=Borchsenius|first1=Finn|last2=Suárez|first2=Luz Stella|last3=Prince|first3=Linda M.|title=Molecular Phylogeny and Redefined Generic Limits of Calathea (Marantaceae) |journal=Systematic Botany |date=July–September 2012 |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=620–635 |doi=10.1600/036364412X648571 |s2cid=84276716 |url=https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/aspt/sb/2012/00000037/00000003/art00005 |access-date=12 June 2021|url-access=subscription }} assigned to Calathea.{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30215678-2 |title=Goeppertia Nees |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=5 May 2021 |quote= Linnaea 6: 337 (1831)}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21417-1 |title=Goeppertia Nees |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=5 May 2021 |quote=This is a synonym of Endlicheria Nees }} In 1862 August Grisebach described another genus Goeppertia; this has now been synonymized with Bisgoeppertia.{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:16577-1 |title=Goeppertia Griseb. |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=5 May 2021 }}

The genus name of Goeppertia is in honour of Heinrich Göppert (1800–1884), a German botanist and paleontologist.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}

Goeppertia can be easily distinguished from Calathea by the rosette-shaped flowers on Goeppertia, where Calathea has more of a ladder structure for its blooms.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

Species

The following species are accepted:

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