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Goeppertia lietzei (syn. Calathea lietzei) is a species of plant belonging to the genus Goeppertia of the Marantaceae family, native to eastern Brazil.
Goeppertia lietzei has been introduced to El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico. It can be considered invasive in West Java, Indonesia. It has also been reported as growing in disturbed forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. In Indonesia, it is locally known as Kalatea batik.
While many of cultivars like "White Fusion" and else are sold as Goeppertia lietzei on the market, those are actually all cultivars of Goeppertia albertii. This confusion came from the original google patent of the White Fusion cultivar which stated that it came from a selection of Calathea lietzei, but they were stating this without any inflroescence confirmation. Later flowering specimens made it clear that the google patent was wrong. Goeppertia lietzei does have a variegated cultivar, but it is not wildely sold on the market and is very rare to find in cultivation.
Goeppertia cylindrica · Goeppertia orbifolia · Goeppertia ornata · Calathea pallidicosta · Calathea paucifolia · Goeppertia picturata · Calathea roseobracteata · Goeppertia warszewiczii · Goeppertia albertii · Guinea Arrowroot · Goeppertia bantae · Goeppertia burle-marxii
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Goeppertia lietzei by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
