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Accession Data:

Calathea metallica Planch. & Linden

  • Common Name: Calathea metallica
  • Family: Marantaceae Peterson

  • Country of Origin: Colombia to Peru and N. Brazil

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201900134
  • Source: Kress Collection, SI#1994827
  • Provenance: 
    Collector# 7272
Madison, Michael T., 
Besse, E.
Ecuador: Carchi
13 Dec 1979
  • Accession Date: 07-10-2019
  • Bench: 1311 - NEOA: Ground Bed 1 SE
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 10-08-2024

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Liliopsida
  • SubClass: commelinids
  • Order: Zingiberales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Marantaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

References (internal):

  • Plants from the Kress Collection (NMNH/Smithsonian)
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Colombia / Ecuador / Peru / Brazil North

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, 02 May, 2019.
  2. WCSP (2019) (as Goeppertia metallica). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Thursday, 02 May, 2019.
  3. Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) used with the permission of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193. Last accessed on Wednesday, 17 July, 2019.

data regenerated on Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:33:05 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Calathea metallica

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W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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