Calathea

Accepted species 59 Documented here 5 Family Marantaceae

Accepted species 59 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Calathea crotalifera S.Watson 86 documented
Calathea lutea (Aubl.) Schult. 74 documented
Calathea erythrolepis L.B.Sm. & Idrobo 4 documented
Calathea guzmanioides L.B.Sm. & Idrobo 3 documented
Calathea lasiostachya Donn.Sm. 3 documented
Calathea fredgandersii H.Kenn. 2 below the evidence gate
Calathea platystachya Standl. & L.O.Williams 1 below the evidence gate
Calathea spiralis H.Kenn. 1 below the evidence gate
Calathea anderssonii H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea anulque H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea asplundii H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea barryi H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea brenesii Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea caesariata H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea calderon-saenzii H.Kenn. & M.Serna 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea carlae H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea casupito (Jacq.) G.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea chiriquensis H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea cofaniorum H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea confusa H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea congesta H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea croatii H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea fredii H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea galdamesiana H.Kenn. & Rod.Flores 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea gentryi H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea grandifolia Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea hagbergii H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea harlingii H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea inscripta (W.Bull) N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea ischnosiphonoides H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea jondule H.Kenn. & Hammel 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea lanibracteata H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea lanicaulis H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea lateralis (Ruiz & Pav.) Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea latrinotecta H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea marantina K.Koch 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea monstera H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea multispicata H.Kenn. & M.Serna 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea neillii H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea neurophylla H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea nitens hort. ex Ender 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea oscariana H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea pluriplicata H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea plurispicata H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea ravenii H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea recurvata H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea retroflexa H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea rubribracteata H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea shishicoensis H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea similis H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea striata H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea tarrazuensis H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea timothei H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea toroi S.Suárez 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea trianae L.B.Sm. & Idrobo 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea utilis H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea velutinifolia H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea verruculosa H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Calathea yawankama H.Kenn. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.