Goeppertia roseopicta

Goeppertia roseopicta (Linden ex Lem.) Borchs. & S.Suárez is an accepted species in the family Marantaceae, placed within the genus Goeppertia Nees. It is one of approximately 260 accepted species within Goeppertia as circumscribed by Borchsenius, Suárez & Prince in their 2012 molecular phylogenetic revision of the family [2]. The species is recorded as in cultivation by this registry, and it continues to be marketed and labelled in the horticultural trade under the synonym Calathea roseopicta (Linden ex Lem.) Regel, a name that both Plants of the World Online (POWO) and the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy treat as a synonym of the accepted Goeppertia combination [1][3].

The genus Goeppertia was originally described by Nees and, following the 2012 revision, now constitutes the principal segregate from the previously broad concept of Calathea. That revision transferred 246 species from Calathea into Goeppertia, of which the present combination is one [2]. The GBIF Backbone Taxonomy records this species under GBIF key 8023661, and POWO carries the same accepted name under the IPNI identifier 60461319-2 [3][1].

The basionym of Goeppertia roseopicta is Maranta roseopicta Linden ex Lem., first published in Annales d'Horticulture Belge et Étrangère 16: 202 in 1866 [1]. The name was attributed to Jean Jules Linden, a Belgian-Luxembourg horticulturalist and plant collector, with the publication effected ex Lemaire. A related entity, Maranta illustris Linden, was published the following year in Illustration Horticole 14: t. 515 (1867) [1].

The basionym was subsequently transferred to Calathea by Regel as Calathea roseopicta (Linden ex Lem.) Regel, published in Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1868 (Suppl.): 12, issued in 1869 and published in 1870 [1]. A further combination, Phyllodes roseopicta (Linden ex Lem.) Kuntze, appeared in Kuntze's Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 695 in 1891 [1]. The synonym Maranta wagneri Veitch ex Regel, published in Gartenflora 28: 300 in 1879, documents an additional early horticultural name for plants circulating in nineteenth-century European horticulture [1].

The current accepted combination — Goeppertia roseopicta (Linden ex Lem.) Borchs. & S.Suárez — was published by Borchsenius, Suárez & Prince in Systematic Botany 37(3) in September 2012 [2]. The registry carries the page range 620–635 for that volume and issue; GBIF and POWO identify the specific combination as appearing at page 634 of that article, and a human reviewer should resolve this discrepancy against the primary record [3][1].

The full documented synonymy, as recorded by POWO as retrieved on 2026-08-12, includes: Maranta roseopicta Linden ex Lem. (1866); Calathea roseopicta (Linden ex Lem.) Regel (1869/1870); Phyllodes roseopicta (Linden ex Lem.) Kuntze (1891); Maranta illustris Linden (1867); Calathea illustris (Linden) N.E.Br. (1882); Calathea roseopicta var. illustris (Linden) Regel (1869/1870); and Maranta wagneri Veitch ex Regel (1879) [1]. The inclusion of Calathea illustris within this synonymy reflects the consolidation of what were at one point treated as distinct taxa into the current single accepted circumscription.

A further registry conflict concerns the accessed_on date for name row 251 (Calathea roseopicta): the registry records both source_date and source_accessed_on as 2012-09-01, which matches the publication date of the Borchsenius et al. paper exactly. This is documented as a likely data-entry placeholder; the actual retrieval date was not separately recorded at ingest and should be corrected by a reviewer.

Diagnostic morphological characters specific to Goeppertia roseopicta are not elaborated in the POWO record for this species beyond the synonymy [1]. The 2012 revision by Borchsenius, Suárez & Prince, which published 246 new combinations transferring species from Calathea into Goeppertia, did not provide individual species diagnoses for each of those combinations [2]. The species is placed in the family Marantaceae, order Zingiberales.

Limited authoritative sources available; further research needed for species-level morphological circumscription beyond the name history.

Goeppertia roseopicta is recorded as an accepted species by both Plants of the World Online and the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy [1][3]. The registry fact pack for this species carries no native_range or habitat values; those fields were left unpopulated at the time of database creation on 2026-08-12.

The documented synonymy in POWO — beginning with Maranta roseopicta Linden ex Lem. (1866) — places the species in nineteenth-century horticultural circulation in Europe, consistent with Linden's broader programme of introducing South American Marantaceae to cultivation [1]. However, no specific native country or TDWG region is stated in the POWO record as retrieved on 2026-08-12, and no peer-reviewed source stating the native range was located during research for this page.

Limited authoritative sources available; further research needed for native range and habitat documentation from a primary record.

No International Cultivar Registration Authority (ICRA) has been appointed by the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) for the family Marantaceae, the genus Goeppertia, or the synonym genus Calathea. The ISHS Commission Cultivar Registration appoints ICRAs and monitors their activity; its published directory of current ICRAs does not list any authority for Marantaceae or any of its genera [4]. This is a documented characteristic of the family, not a gap specific to this registry's data.

The practical consequence is that cultivar names attributed to Goeppertia roseopicta — including the six listed in this registry — have been coined and circulated in the horticultural trade without any centralized registration, formal vetting of epithet uniqueness, compliance review against the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP), or verified originator attribution. No registration body currently holds the authority to adjudicate conflicts between these names or to establish priority among them.

By contrast, the International Aroid Society (IAS) holds an ICRA appointment from ISHS for the family Araceae [5], providing a structural parallel that does not extend to Marantaceae. The ISHS Commission Cultivar Registration is the body through which any future ICRA appointment for Goeppertia or Marantaceae would be made [4].

Goeppertia roseopicta is documented as in cultivation (registry field in_cultivation: true). The species is listed in the horticultural trade under the synonym Calathea roseopicta, as confirmed by the continuing horticultural use of that name noted in the POWO synonymy record [1].

No authoritative horticultural institution publication — botanical garden, university extension service, or peer-reviewed cultivation study — was located during research for this page that documents cultivation requirements, propagation methods, or horticultural performance data for this species or its cultivars from an approved source category.

Limited authoritative sources available; further research needed.

Six cultivars are recorded in this registry as belonging to Goeppertia roseopicta: 'Corona', 'Cynthia', 'Dottie', 'Medallion', 'Rosy', and 'Silvia'. All six carry originator_unknown: true, and none has a documented plant patent number. The existence of multiple named cultivars indicates that the species has been subject to selection and vegetative propagation in the horticultural trade [1][3].

No originator is documented for any of these cultivars, and no authoritative registration record locating their originators has been identified. Because no ICRA for Marantaceae exists, there is no central register against which these epithets have been validated for uniqueness or ICNCP compliance [4]. Each cultivar carries its registered epithet in accordance with ICNCP conventions — single-quoted, non-italicised — as the formal designation under which it is listed in this registry.