Goeppertia warszewiczii
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Zingiberales |
| Family: | Marantaceae |
| Genus: | Goeppertia |
| Species: | G. warszewiczii |
| Binomial name | |
| Goeppertia warszewiczii (Lem.) Borchs. & S.Suárez | |
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Goeppertia warszewiczii (previously Calathea warscewiczii) is a species of perennial, herbaceous plant from the genus Goeppertia in the Marantaceae family, native to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panamá.[1] The specific epithet warszewiczii refers to Józef Warszewicz.[2]
Description
Goeppertia warszeiwczii is a medium sized plant with long, dark green velvety leaves, with short and thick; puprle petioles and short; purple pulvinus. The leaves usually have a pattern on the upper side of the leaf, with a saw tooth, light green band along the middle vein. The inflorescence of G.warszewiczii is made of multiple bracts around a short, purple peduncle. The bracts appear white at first and slowly fade into a deep purple color with time, the flowers often stay closed throughout the flowering process until a pollinator come to open it. The flowers are white creamy. [3]
Uses
The Teribe use Goeppertia warscewiczii for treating snakebites.[4]
Similar species
In, Costa Rica, it is often confused with a very similar species Goeppertia leucostachys. This later plant has an extremely similar inflorescence and dark green velvety leaves. The key to differenciate those two species is the hair being found on the whole plant of G.leucostachys. On this species, the bracts, peduncle, petioles, leaves are all hairy, unlike on Goeppertia warszewiczii.[5]
References
- ↑ "Goeppertia warszewiczii (Lem.) Borchs. & S.Suárez | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2026-06-05.
- ↑ Zemanek, Alicja; Zemanek, Bogdan; Głuszak, Tomasz; Nobis, Marcin (2021). "Józef Warszewicz (1812–1866) and taxonomical history of Warszewiczia coccinea (Vahl) Klotzsch". Studia Historiae Scientiarum. 20: 601–625. doi:10.4467/2543702XSHS.21.017.14048.
- ↑ Lemaire, Charles Antoine (1854). "Maranta (?) warszewiczii". L'Illustration Horticole. 1.
- ↑ Gupta, M. P.; Solis, P. N.; Calderón, A. I.; Guinneau-Sinclair, F.; Correa, M.; Galdames, C.; Guerra, C. (2005). "Medical ethnobotany of the Teribes of Bocas del Toro, Panama". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 96 (3): 389–401. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2004.08.032. PMID 15619557.
- ↑ Curtis, William (1875). "Calathea leucostachys". Curtis's Botanical Magazine: 6205.