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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Marantaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Marantaceae

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Zingiberidae Cronquist pub. 1978       SuperOrdo  Zingiberanae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.       Ordo  Zingiberales Griseb. pub. Grundr. Syst. Bot.: 167. Jan-Jun 1854.       Familia  Marantaceae Petersen in Engl. & Prantl pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam., II, 6: 33. Oct 1888, nom. cons. common name: Arrowroots

Named members of the Family Marantaceae

1	Genus  Afrocalathea K.Schum.
2	Genus  Ataenidia Gagnep.
3	Genus  Bamburanta L.Linden syn. Trachyphrynium Benth.
4	Genus  Calathea G.Mey. common name: calathea
5	Genus  Clinogyne K.Schum. syn. Marantochloa Brongn. ex Gris
6	Genus  Cominsia Hemsl.
7	Genus  Ctenanthe Eichler
8	Genus  Ctenophrynium K.Schum. syn. Saranthe (Regel & Korn.) Eichler
9	Genus  Donax Lour.
10	Genus  Halopegia K.Schum.
11	Genus  Haumania J.Leonard
12	Genus  Hybophrynium K.Schum. syn. Trachyphrynium Benth.
13	Genus  Hylaeanthe A.M.E.Jonker & Jonker
14	Genus  Hymenocharis Salisb. syn. Ischnosiphon Korn.
15	Genus  Hypselodelphys (K.Schum.) Milne-Redh.
16	Genus  Hytophrynium K.Schum. syn. Trachyphrynium Benth.
17	Genus  Ischnosiphon Korn.
18	Genus  Koernickanthe L.Andersson
19	Genus  Marantochloa Brongn. ex Gris common name: marantochloa
20	Subfamilia  Marantoideae Eaton pub. Bot. Dict., ed. 4: 29. Apr-Mai 1836.
	21    Tribus  Maranteae Meisn. pub. Pl. Vasc. Gen.: Tab. Diagn. 389, Comm. 292. 17-20 Aug 1842.      22    Genus  Maranta L. pub. (1753) common name: maranta
23	Genus  Megaphrynium Milne-Redh.
24	Genus  Monophrynium K.Schum.
25	Genus  Monophyllanthe K.Schum.
26	Genus  Monotagma K.Schum.
27	Genus  Myrosma L.f. common name: myrosma
28	Genus  Phacelophrynium K.Schum.
29	Tribus  Phrynieae Petersen in Engl. & Prantl pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam. II, 6: 38. Oct 1888.
	30    Genus  Phrynium Willd. pub. (1797)
31	Genus  Pleiostachya K.Schum.
32	Genus  Sanblasia L.Andersson
33	Genus  Saranthe (Regel & Korn.) Eichler
34	Genus  Sarcophrynium K.Schum.
35	Genus  Schumannianthus Gagnep.
36	Genus  Stachyphrynium K.Schum.
37	Genus  Stromanthe Sond.
38	Genus  Thalia L. common name: alligator-flag
39	Genus  Thaumatococcus Benth. common name: thaumatococcus
40	Genus  Thymocarpus Nicolson, Steyerm. & Sivad.
41	Genus  Trachyphrynium Benth.

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

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