'Freddie' · ← Goeppertia Updated 2026-08-13

GOEPPERTIA

Goeppertia concinna 'Freddie'

A trade cultivar epithet applied to a Brazilian perennial for which no originator, patent, or registration authority has been documented.

Overview

Goeppertia concinna (W.Bull) Borchs. & S.Suárez is an accepted species within Goeppertia Nees, the largest genus of Marantaceae, encompassing an estimated 260 species [3]. Plants of the World Online records the species as native to Brazil, confined to the states of Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais, and describes it as a perennial of the wet tropical biome [1]. The Royal Horticultural Society characterises it as an evergreen rhizomatous perennial forming a clump of erect leafstalks bearing narrow, lance-shaped leaf blades that are bright green decorated with deeper green broad stripes [6]. The cultivar epithet 'Freddie' is applied in the horticultural trade to this species; no authoritative formal publication establishing the epithet has been located.

Name Classes

Three name classes are distinguished in this registry: registered epithet, trade designation, and patent denomination.

Registered epithet. The cultivar epithet 'Freddie' is recorded in the Digital Towns registry as a name in trade use. The International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants requires a cultivar epithet to be enclosed in single quotation marks [4]; accordingly the epithet is rendered 'Freddie' throughout this record. No registration reference number, registration authority, or registration date exists for this cultivar.

Trade designation. No trade designation distinct from the cultivar epithet 'Freddie' has been identified in any authoritative source examined during research.

Patent denomination. No plant patent corresponding to this cultivar has been identified. The registry field patent_number is null, and no patent denomination exists.

The heterotypic synonyms Calathea leopardina (W.Bull) Regel and Calathea concinna (W.Bull) K.Schum. refer to the same species as Goeppertia concinna and remain in trade use [1]; these are species-level synonyms and do not constitute alternative epithets for 'Freddie'.

Taxonomic History

The basionym is Maranta concinna W.Bull, published in the Gardener's Chronicle n.s. 1: 78 in 1874 [2]. The combination transferring the species to Goeppertia was published by Borchsenius, Suárez and Prince in Systematic Botany 37(3): 630 in 2012, as part of a molecular phylogenetic revision demonstrating that Calathea G.Mey. as previously circumscribed was polyphyletic; that revision produced 246 new combinations [3]. The GBIF Backbone Taxonomy accepts Goeppertia concinna under taxon key 7635094, confirming the accepted name and its synonymy [5].

Origin and Authorship

No originator is documented — this cultivar predates any registration authority for Marantaceae.

The registry records no originator, no namer, no parentage, no derivation type, no year of establishment, no origin place, and no origin date for 'Freddie'. No USPTO plant patent has been identified that names this cultivar, and no peer-reviewed source, botanical garden record, or institutional publication examined during research establishes a breeding history or named selector for the 'Freddie' epithet.

Limited authoritative sources available; further research needed.

Registration and Intellectual Property

No International Cultivar Registration Authority has been appointed for Marantaceae. International Cultivar Registration Authorities are appointed by the Commission Cultivar Registration of the International Society for Horticultural Science and operate within the provisions of the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants [4]. The International Aroid Society is the appointed ICRA for Araceae [7]; its remit does not extend to Marantaceae, which belongs to the order Zingiberales. As a consequence, the cultivar epithet 'Freddie' has not been formally registered with any ICRA, and no registration reference number, registration authority, or registration date exists. Digital Towns is an applicant and aggregator; it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or accredited by the ISHS or any appointed ICRA [4].

State of Documentation

The species Goeppertia concinna is documented by Plants of the World Online [1], the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy [5], the Royal Horticultural Society Plant Finder [6], and the 2012 Borchsenius, Suárez and Prince revision in Systematic Botany [3]. At the cultivar level, no peer-reviewed publication, botanic garden monograph, university extension document, or plant patent has been located that documents Goeppertia concinna 'Freddie' specifically, including its distinguishing traits relative to the wild-type species. The registry field distinguishing_traits is null.

Limited authoritative sources available; further research needed.

Registry record

The entries below are the registry rows this article is written from. Each carries its own source, its role, and both dates. A row recorded as nomenclatural evidence is dated documentation of a name in use and is never cited in the prose above.

Registry card

Goeppertia concinna 'Freddie' is a cultivar epithet applied in trade to Goeppertia concinna (W.Bull) Borchs. & S.Suárez, a rhizomatous perennial native to Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais, Brazil. No originator, plant patent, or formal cultivar registration has been documented for this epithet.

Genus
Goeppertia
Species
concinna
Classification
not recorded
Originator
not documented
Established
not documented
Patent
none on record

Name classes

Three name classes with three different legal statuses attach to a cultivated plant: the registered cultivar epithet (governed by the ICNCP, printed in single quotes), any trade designation (a marketing name or trademark, never printed in single quotes), and the patent denomination (the name as published in a plant patent). Conflating them is the most common error in horticultural writing, and it is the one this registry exists to prevent.

NameClassSource
Freddie Accepted evidence only Digital Towns registry — name in trade use, source verification pending (2026-08-11)
Placeholder record. No authoritative source for this cultivar has been located; Marantaceae has no ICRA and no register. Not citable in prose and does not count toward the indexing threshold. To be replaced by a sourced record from the USPTO -> journals -> dated-catalog research pass.

Origin and parentage

This registry has not located significant documentation to substantiate the origin of this name. No originator, introduction date, or registration record has been found in any source examined — no cultivar registration authority exists for Marantaceae that could have recorded one.

No independent dated documentation has been located to date. What this registry holds is its own record of the name in commercial use, 2026-08-11 — not third-party documentation.

This record is maintained openly and updates as documentation is located. Documented evidence of this cultivar's origin — dated catalogues, listings, or publications — can be submitted for verification.

Patent and propagation status

No plant patent is recorded for this cultivar in this registry. That is not the same as a positive finding that none exists: absence here means we have not located one.

Sources

  1. Goeppertia concinna (W.Bull) Borchs. & S.Suárez. Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. (2012-01-01). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60459267-2 Accessed 2026-08-12.
  2. Nomenclatural notes on Goeppertia (Marantaceae). Phytotaxa 222(2): 9. [References W.Bull (1874) Maranta concinna, Gard. Chron. n.s. 1: 78] (2015-01-01). Phytotaxa / Magnolia Press. https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.222.2.9 Accessed 2026-08-12.
  3. Borchsenius, F., Suárez, L.S.S. & Prince, L.M. (2012). Molecular phylogeny and redefined generic limits of Calathea (Marantaceae). Systematic Botany 37(3): 620–635. (2012-01-01). American Society of Plant Taxonomists / Systematic Botany. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364412X648571 Accessed 2026-08-12.
  4. Cultivar Registration. International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS). (n.d.). International Society for Horticultural Science. https://ishs.org/scientific-structure/cmnr-cultivar-registration/ Accessed 2026-08-12.
  5. Goeppertia concinna (W.Bull) Borchs. & S.Suárez. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, taxon key 7635094. (n.d.). Global Biodiversity Information Facility. https://www.gbif.org/species/7635094 Accessed 2026-08-12.
  6. Goeppertia concinna. Royal Horticultural Society Plant Finder. (n.d.). Royal Horticultural Society. https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/357162/goeppertia-concinna/details Accessed 2026-08-12.
  7. About. Aroid Cultivar Registry. International Aroid Society. (n.d.). International Aroid Society. https://www.aroidcultivars.org/about Accessed 2026-08-12.

DIGITAL TOWNS REGISTRY · PLANTS · REVIEWED 2026-08-13