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Description
Family Marantaceae
Herbs perennial
, rhizomatous
. Aerial
stems present or absent. Leaves distichous, usually large; petiole
sheathing
at base
, apex with a swollen pulvinus; leaf blade
pinnately veined, lateral
veins parallel, slightly S-shaped. Inflorescences terminal
or axillary
, borne on leafy shoots
or occasionally on separate, leafless shoots from rhizomes, compound
, headlike, spicate
, or diffuse
and much branched, bracteate
; bracts each subtending
a pair of flowers or a cincinus of paired
flowers. Flowers bisexual
, asymmetric
, paired or rarely borne singly. Sepals 3, free
. Corolla lobes
3, often slightly unequal, basally connate
into a tube
. Staminodes and stamen in 2 whorls: outer whorl with 1 or 2 petaloid
staminodes, rarely absent; inner whorl with 1 hooded
(cucullate
) staminode enclosing terminal portion of pistil at anthesis
and bearing a lateral appendage (trigger
), 1 thickened and fleshy
(callose
) staminode, and 1 fertile
stamen narrowly petaloid laterally; anther
1-loculed. Ovary inferior, 3-loculed, 1--3 locules fertile; ovules 1 per locule. Style cylindric
, adnate
to inside of corolla and staminode tube, free portion curved
after explosive forward movement (tripping) when released Seeds 1--3, hard, usually arillate
.from hooded staminode; stigma scoop-shaped or blunted and 3-cleft. Fruit a capsule, loculicidal, rarely indehiscent or berrylike.
Thirty-one genera and ca.
525 species: pantropical
but ca. 80% in America, absent from Australia; four genera (one introduced
) and eight species (two endemic, one introduced) in China.[1]
Habitat
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Liliopsida
()
- Scopoli, 1760
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Zingiberanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Cannales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Marantaceae
()
- Petersen, 1888
- Prayer-Plant Family
- Family:
Marantaceae
(
- Order:
Cannales
(
- Superorder:
Zingiberanae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Liliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : H.Kennedy Publication : in Canad. J. Bot., 63(6): 1143 (1985) 1985
Similar Species
Members of the genus Calathea
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 438 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
C. aberrans · C. achira · C. ackermani · C. ackermanni · C. acuminata · C. aemula · C. affinis · C. albertii · C. albertii 'Variegata' · C. albicans · C. albo-vaginata · C. allenii · C. allouga · C. allouia (Guinea Arrowroot) · C. allouia var. violacea · C. alluia · C. altissima · C. amazonica · C. amplissima · C. anderssonii · C. angustifolia · C. annae · C. anulque · C. applicata · C. argyraea · C. argyrophylla · C. argyrophylla 'Exotica' · C. arrabida · C. arrecta · C. asplundii · C. atropurpurea · C. attenuata · C. bachemiana · C. backemiana · C. bakeri · C. bambusacea · C. bantae · C. baraquini · C. baraquinii · C. barbata · C. barbillana · C. bella (Calathea) · C. bicolor · C. blanda · C. boliviana · C. bracteosa · C. brasiliensis · C. brenesii · C. brevipes · C. brunnescens · C. buchtieni · C. bullii · C. burle-marxii · C. burle-marxii 'Burlemarxii' · C. burle-marxii 'Ice Blue' (Calathea) · C. burle-marxii 'Ice Green' · C. burle-marxii 'Snow Cone' · C. caesariata · C. cannoides · C. capitata · C. caquetensis · C. cardenasii · C. cardiophylla · C. cartaractarum · C. cassupito · C. casupito · C. cataractarum · C. chimboracensis · C. chrysantha · C. chrysoleuca · C. cinerea · C. cleistantha · C. clivorum · C. coccinea · C. colombiana · C. colorata · C. communis · C. comosa · C. compacta · C. concinna (Coccinna Prayer Plant) · C. concolor · C. conferta · C. congesta · C. contamanensis · C. contrafenestra · C. 'Cora' · C. coriacea · C. corona (Corona Prayer Plant) · C. crocata (Eternal Flame) · C. crotalifera (Rattlesnake Plant) · C. crotalifera 'Green Rattle' · C. crotalifera 'Yellow Rattle' · C. cuneata · C. curaraya · C. cyclophora · C. cylindrica (Calathea) · C. dasycarpa · C. densa · C. dicephala · C. dilabens
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Further Reading
- In: Wu Te-lin, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 16(2): 158--169.
- Wu Te-lin & Chen Sen-jen. 1981. Marantaceae.
Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 02, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- Muriel, P. & Pitman, N. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 02, 2007:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5988791
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15606930
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:929036-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 273660-2
- IUCN ID: 45639
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1028604
Footnotes
- Delin Wu & Helen Kennedy "Marantaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 379. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
