Goeppertia concinna (syn. Calathea concinna, Calathea leopardina) is a species of flowering plant from the genus Goeppertia in the family Marantaceae. It is native to Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. A perennial shrub of the wet tropics, it has found use as a houseplant.
Description
Goeppertia concinna is a small sized plant. It has pointy, light green leaves, long, green petioles and a small, green pulvinus. It has a pattern on the upper side of the leaf, which consists of a few, pointy dark green spots along the middle vein. The inflorescence of G.concinna is made of multiple bracts on a very short peduncle. The bracts are pointy and green and the flowers are bright yellow.
Taxonomy In 2012, Mariana Saka, stated that the old type of Calathea leopardina was now used for Goeppertia concinna as Regel considered Calathea leopardina only a variety of Calathea concinna (Calathea leopardina var.concinna). The only differentiation Regel noticed between the two was the shape of the leaves (elliptic vs elliptic lanceolate).
Cultivation In cultivation, there is a species that is often misnamed as Goeppertia concinna, which is a Goeppertia species called in the trade "Freddie". Those plants are a different species as Goeppertia concinna. The real G. concinna is more often sold as Goeppertia leopardina (or Calathea leopardina).
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