Goeppertia albertii (L.H.Bailey & Raffill) Borchsenius & S.Suárez

Braga, João Marcelo Alvarenga, Silva, Felipe Araujo, Cardoso, Leandro Jorge Telles, Joffily, Ana & Couto, Ricardo Sousa, 2017, New combinations and typifications in Goeppertia (Marantaceae), Phytotaxa 312 (1), pp. 143-146 : 143

Goeppertia albertii (L.H.Bailey & Raffill) Borchsenius & S.Suárez in Borchsenius et al. (2012: 628).

Basionym:— Calathea albertii L.H. Bailey & Raffill (1914: 621) .

Type:— USA. Cultivated plants of Florida, Alachua, Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, 19 August 2006, S. B. Davis 1388 (neotype, FLAS!, designated here).

= Maranta albertii Pynaert & Van Geert , nom. nud.

Notes:— Maranta albertii Pynaert & Van Geert was first published by Bailey & Raffill (1914) as the supposed basionym of Calathea albertii . However, Maranta albertii was associated with the abbreviation “ hort.” (hortulanorum), meaning a name used only in horticulture and not effectively published. Thus, Bailey & Raffill (1914) published a new species inadvertently when they described and transferred Maranta albertii to Calathea . Borchsenius et al. (2012) then transferred Calathea albertii to Goeppertia , but mistakenly cited Maranta albertii as the basionym. However, this error does not invalidate the combination, because these authors provided a complete and direct reference to Bailey & Raffill (1914). Thus, the author of the basionym cited by Borchsenius et al. (2012) is here corrected.

This species is known only from horticulture, as noted above.