Goeppertia majestica(Linden) Borchs. & S.Suárez

WFO wfo-0001329577 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 4 separate observations

Goeppertia majestica, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. a Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-04-18 / obs. 17418780
Goeppertia majestica, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ
fig. b GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188388572
Goeppertia majestica, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ
fig. c GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109660850
Goeppertia majestica, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ
fig. d GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109654544

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Goeppertia majestica is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru BoliviaBrazil NorthColombiaEcuadorGuyanaPeru
Native distribution of Goeppertia majestica, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Guyana GUY
Peru PER

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 130 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 14.8 °C 19.9 °C 24.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.6 °C 29.2 °C 32.2 °C
Annual rainfall 1,431 mm 2,248 mm 4,919 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 67 mm 228 mm 706 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 130 research-grade observations of Goeppertia majestica that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Calathea gigas Gagnep.
  • Calathea imperialis (Burgerstein & O.Abel) L.H.Bailey & Raffill
  • Calathea majestica (Linden) H.Kenn.
  • Calathea ornata var. majestica (Linden) É.Morren
  • Calathea princeps Regel
  • Maranta imperialis Burgerstein & O.Abel
  • Maranta majestica Linden
  • Maranta princeps Linden
  • Phyllodes princeps Kuntze

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.