Goeppertia micans(L.Mathieu) Borchs. & S.Suárez

WFO wfo-0001329583 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Goeppertia micans, photographed by John Abrams
fig. a John Abrams, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-16 / obs. 129559847
Goeppertia micans, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. b Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 14462795
Goeppertia micans, photographed by Michael A. Alcorn
fig. c Michael A. Alcorn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18748592
Goeppertia micans, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. d Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3707867
Goeppertia micans, photographed by Amanda Fisher
fig. e Amanda Fisher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178963833
Goeppertia micans, photographed by Emily Franzen
fig. f Emily Franzen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173350472
Goeppertia micans, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. g Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 5746718
Goeppertia micans, photographed by Michael A. Alcorn
fig. h Michael A. Alcorn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18749174

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
02692167
Filed as
Goeppertia micans (L.Mathieu) Borchs. & S.Suárez
Det. by
S. Suárez 2007-01-01
Collected
D. Cárdenas-López 2006-07-19
Origin
CO
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Goeppertia micans is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela Mexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruSurinameVenezuela
Native distribution of Goeppertia micans, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 72 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 18.0 °C 20.5 °C 22.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.0 °C 29.4 °C 33.3 °C
Annual rainfall 1,997 mm 3,732 mm 4,781 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 139 mm 310 mm 824 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 72 research-grade observations of Goeppertia micans 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 16 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 albicans Brongn. ex K.Schum.
  • Calathea albicans Brongn. ex Gris
  • Calathea klugii J.F.Macbr.
  • Calathea micans (L.Mathieu) Körn.
  • Calathea micans var. amabilis Petersen
  • Calathea micans var. robustior Regel & Körn.
  • Calathea sprucei Rusby
  • Goeppertia sprucei (Rusby) Borchs. & S.Suárez
  • Maranta amabilis Linden
  • Maranta micans L.Mathieu
  • Maranta nana Poepp. ex Körn.
  • Phrynium micans Klotzsch
  • Phrynium pumilum Klotzsch
  • Phrynium pusillum K.Koch
  • Phyllodes albicans (Brongn. ex Gris) Kuntze
  • Phyllodes micans 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.