Calathea veitchiana

Calathea veitchiana
Illustration from Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe by Louis van Houtte, 1865–1867
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Zingiberales
Family:	Marantaceae
Genus:	Calathea
Species:	C. veitchiana
Binomial name
Calathea veitchiana J.H.Veitch ex Hook.f.
Synonyms [2]
Maranta veitchiana (Veitch ex Hook.f.) Van Houtte Phyllodes veitchiana (Veitch ex Hook.f.) Kuntze

Calathea veitchiana is a species of plant in the Marantaceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

The plant was discovered near Cuenca by the Victorian plant collector, Richard Pearce in 1862, and named in honour of his employers, James Veitch & Sons. ^[3]

Similar species

In 1983 a new species of Calathea was described from Peru, that, although not closely related to C. veitchiana, shows the same leaf pattern and had been previously misidentified in collections as C. veitchiana. This new species was named C. pseudoveitchiana. ^[4]

References

1. Muriel, P. & Pitman, N. 2004. Calathea veitchiana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 August 2007.
2. "The Plant List: A Working List of all Plant Species".
3. James Herbert Veitch (2006). Hortus Veitchii (reprint ed.). Caradoc Doy. p. 47. ISBN   0-9553515-0-2.
4. Helen Kennedy (1983). "A pattern mimic of Calathea veitchiana from Peru (Marantaceae)". Canadian Journal of Botany. 61 (5): 1429–1434. doi:10.1139/b83-154.

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