A new species of Goeppertia (Marantaceae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Author Santos, Diego 0000-0002-0053-1333 Universidade Federal do Ceará, Centro de Ciências, Departamento de Biologia, Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia Vegetal - LA- SEV, Bloco 906, Campus do Pici, 60440 - 900, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil Author Sousa, Luana Mateus De 0000-0003-1415-3297 Universidade Federal do Ceará, Centro de Ciências, Departamento de Biologia, Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia Vegetal - LA- SEV, Bloco 906, Campus do Pici, 60440 - 900, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil Author Loiola, Maria Iracema Bezerra 0000-0003-3389-5560 Universidade Federal do Ceará, Centro de Ciências, Departamento de Biologia, Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia Vegetal - LA- SEV, Bloco 906, Campus do Pici, 60440 - 900, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil Author Saka, Mariana Naomi 0000-0002-2457-0134 Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Departamento de Ciências Exatas e Biológicas, Campus Sete Lagoas, 35701 - 970, Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brasil text Phytotaxa 2025 2025-10-02 720 3 289 296 https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.720.3.9 journal article 314470 10.11646/phytotaxa.720.3.9 3b8119dd-ee71-4bc8-a0eb-ac6975dd646c 1179-3163 18424077

TABLE 1. Morphological characteristics of Goeppertia albobracteata and allied species, G. burle- marxii, G. cylindrica, and G. truncata.

Morphological	G. albobracteata	G. burle-marxii	G. cylindrica	G. truncata
characters
Plant high (m)	0.5-1 m	1.5-2.5 m	0.6-1m	0.6−1 m
Cauline node	2–3	1–3	1(–2)	1–2
Leaf blades in fresh	Pleated	Undulating	Pleated	Pleated
material
Leaf blade shape	Elliptic to largely	Elliptic	Elliptic to largely	Elliptic to largely
	obovate		obovate	obovate
Leaf blade apex	Rounded to cuspidate	Acuminate	Truncate with acumen	Obtuse
Leaf blade base	Attenuate to obtuse	Truncate	Acute to acuminate	Acute to obtuse
Leaf blade size (cm)	(21−)24–37 × 14–	21−47 × 10−26	34−49 × 16−24	25−44 × 14−26
	32(−39)
Leaf blade indumentum	Entirely glabrous	Glabrous with a line of	Entirely glabrous or	Entirely glabrous or with
on adaxial side		trichomes on the midrib	with a line of trichomes	a pubescent midrib
			in midrib
Leaf blade indumentum	Entirely pubescent	Entirely glabrous	Entirely glabrous or with	Entirely pubescent
on abaxial side			a pubescent midrib
Number of spathes	12–15	21–29	31–46	18–31(–54)
Spathes color	White	White or lilac	Green	Green
Spathes indumentum	Pillous in distal ones	Glabrous, except for	Glabrous or puberulous	Tomentose to villous
		basal one, pubescent
Florescence component	3 cymes	3–4 cymes	3–4 cymes	4–5(–6) cymes
Bracteoles per cyme	2, keeled	1, keeled	1, keeled	1(–2), keeled
Sepals length (cm)	0.8–1	1.1−1.3 × 0.2−0.3	1.1–1.3 × 0.2–0.3	0.7–0.9 × 0.1–0.2
Corolla tube	Pillous	Glabrous	Glabrous	Glabrous
indumentum
Corolla tube length (cm)	1.5-1.6	2.1−2.6	1.7−1.9	1.1−1.8
Corolla lobes length	0.7−0.8 × 0.3−0.4	0.8−1 × 0.3−0.4	0.8−1 × 0.3−0.4	0.8−1.9 × 0.3−0.4
(cm)
External staminode	Obovate, emarginate	Obovate, emarginate	Obovate, emarginate	Obovate, bilobate apex
shape and apex	apex	apex	apex
External staminode size	0.8−1 × 0.6	1−1.3 × 0.6	0.8−1 × 0.3−0.4	1−1.1 × 0.7−0.8
(cm)
Callous staminode size	5−6 × 4−5 mm	5−6 × 4−5	11 × 6	5−8 × 3−4
(mm)