Goeppertia bella (W.Bull) Borchsenius & Suárez (2012: 629)

Saka, Mariana Naomi & Lombardi, Julio Antonio, 2015, Nomenclatural notes on Goeppertia (Marantaceae), Phytotaxa 222 (2), pp. 155-158 : 155

Goeppertia bella (W.Bull) Borchsenius & Suárez (2012: 629)

Basionym:— Maranta bella Bull (1875 a: 7) ≡ Calathea bella (W.Bull) Regel (1879: 297) ≡ Phyllodes bella (W.Bull) Kuntze (1891: 696) . Type (neotype, designated here):— BRAZIL. ES, Marilândia, Liberdade, propr.: Deoclécio Lorencini, Alt.: 150–350m /s.m., 37°21’7’’S, 58°30’51’’W, 28 September 2006, L.F.S. Magnano et al. 1468 (MBML 32733!).

= Calathea cardiophylla Schumann (1902: 108) . Type (lectotype, designated here):— BRAZIL. Environs of Rio [de] Janeiro, 1882, A.F.M. Glaziou 14326 (K barcode K000586826 ! [digital image], isolectotype F-F0BN009813! [digital image]; image of the lectotype is available at http://www.kew.org/herbcatimg/248852.jpg).

Additional specimen examined:— BRAZIL. Rio (de Janeiro), A.F.M. Glaziou 17815 (syntype K! [digital image).

= Calathea musaica W.Bull ex Bailey (1914: 624) . Type (neotype, designated here):— BRAZIL. ES, Santa Teresa, Vale do Canaã, 8 November 1985, W.A. Hoffmann 289 (MBML 4064!, isoneotypes ESA 62630!, RB 602863).

Notes:— Maranta bella was described by William Bull in his Plant Catalogue (1875a: 7). However, neither he, nor Regel (1879: 297), Kuntze (1891: 696) or Borchsenius & Suárez (2012: 629), in their following combinations, have appointed any type material to this species. Thus, Goeppertia bella is here neotypified (Art. 9.7 of ICN, McNeill et al. 2012) with a collection from Brazil (as stated in William Bull’s original description) which presents the same features he highlighted in the diagnosis, such as leaves “obliquely ovate, acute, narrowing considerably towards the point, cordate at the base, and so unequal-sided that one side is nearly twice the breadth of the other”.

The synonyms Calathea cardiophylla and Calathea musaica were also lectotypified and neotypified, respectively.