Goeppertia aka Bella Carlina Calathea

Goeppertia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Marantaceae, native to the New World Tropics. It contains 243 accepted species, many of which were until recently assigned to Calathea. The genus name of Goeppertia is in honor of Heinrich Göppert, a German botanist and paleontologist. These plants, commonly known as prayer plants, have delightfully patterned leaves that come in all sorts of colors and shapes. A tender, upright, clump-forming perennial, Goeppertia features glossy, oval variegated bright green and yellow leaves with red undersides. Small purple and white flowers occasionally appear in summer. Interestingly, the leaves of some species fold up at night through a process called nyctinasty, meaning night movement.