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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Maranta

Hierarchical position of the Genus Maranta

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       Subfamilia  Marantoideae Eaton pub. Bot. Dict., ed. 4: 29. Apr-Mai 1836.       Tribus  Maranteae Meisn. pub. Pl. Vasc. Gen.: Tab. Diagn. 389, Comm. 292. 17-20 Aug 1842.       Genus  Maranta L. pub. (1753) common name: maranta

Named members of the Genus Maranta

1	Species  arundinacea L. common name: arrowroot

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

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

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