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Maranta is a genus of plants within the family Marantaceae. It belongs to the order Zingiberales, class Liliopsida, phylum Tracheophyta, and kingdom Plantae. The taxonomic type for this genus is Maranta arundinacea. Common names for the genus include maranta, Prayer Plant, Nukkumatit, urubá, and gondol arrowroot. The name Maranta was established by Linnaeus in 1753, and its taxonomic status is accepted.
Records of Maranta have been documented in Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, the Philippines, and the United States. These records are held by institutions such as IBUNAM, UNICACH, INECOL, NY, and GA. There are 15,266 occurrence records associated with the genus, along with 797 records and 165 media files in specific databases. Additionally, the genus is referenced by 20 other encyclopedia articles.
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Species
Prayer plant
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderZingiberales
- FamilyMarantaceae
Common Name: gondol arrowroot
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 797
- With media
- 165
- Family
- Marantaceae
- Collections
- IBUNAM, UNICACH, INECOL, NY, GA, BRIT
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, Philippines, United States, Ecuador
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Marantaceae
- Image
- Maranta leuconeura3.jpg
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Maranta
- Commons category
- Maranta
- taxonomic type
- Maranta arundinacea
- topic's main category
- Category:Maranta (plant)
- taxon common name
- 竹芋属
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Encyclopedic overview
Maranta is a genus of flowering plants in the family Marantaceae, native to tropical Central and South America and the West Indies. Maranta was named for Bartolomeo Maranta, an Italian physician and botanist of the sixteenth century.
About 40-50 species are currently recognized. They all have rhizomes and naturally form perennial clumps. The crowded oval, evergreen leaves are undivided with sheathing stalks. The leaves are flat by day and folded up as the day comes to an end, hence the common name "prayer plant" which attaches to the genus and its species - notably M. leuconeura. The flowers are small with three petals and two larger petal-like staminodes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maranta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.