Maranteae

• Overview
• Taxonomy
• Genera
• Bibliography
• Footnotes
• Sources

Overview

Taxonomy

The Tribe Maranteae is further organized into finer groupings including:

• Genus (11): Ctenanthe · Culcita · Gasteria · Ischnosiphon · Maranta · Marattia · Marcetella · Myrosma · Quesnelia · Stromanthe · Thalia
• Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 550 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Maranteae.

Genera

Ctenanthe

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Culcita

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Gasteria

Gasteria is a of succulent plants native to South Africa. Closely-related genera include Aloe and Haworthia. The genus is named for its stomach-shaped flowers and is part of an expanded Asphodelaceae family. [more]

Ischnosiphon

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Maranta

Maranta can refer to: [more]

Marattia

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Marcetella

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Myrosma

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Quesnelia

Quesnelia (named For M. Quesnel, French consul to French Guiana) is a of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. Indigenous to eastern Brazil, this genus contains approximately 30 species. [more]

Stromanthe

Stromanthe is a genus of in family Marantaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]

Thalia

Plants aquatic, upright, often dying back to rhizome in winter [dry season], 1--3.5 m. Rhizome not evidently enlarged or specialized for starch storage. Stems unbranched below inflorescence; leaves all basal or rarely with single cauline leaf borne above elongate (0.7--2.5 m) internode. Leaves homotropic; sheath not auriculate, spongy, containing prominent air spaces; blade plain green, ovate to elliptic. Inflorescences branched, branches short and upright to elongate and arching; rachis internodes conspicuously zigzagged; bracts deciduous, both bracts and prophylls falling with flower if fruit not set, leaving proximal portion of rachis bare, each bract subtending 1 flower pair, herbaceous to leathery; prophylls not evidently keeled, membranous; secondary bracts absent; bracteoles absent. Flowers self-fertilizing [outcrossing], pale to dark purple (corolla and staminodes) ; sepals persistent in fruit, 0.5--3 mm, membranous; corolla tube 1--6 mm, corolla lobes subequal to strongly unequal; outer staminode 1, petal-like, showy; callose staminode mainly fleshy, narrow apical rim petal-like; cucullate staminode with 2 appendages, subterminal, finger-like; stylar movement helical when tripped; styles with 1 appendage, elongate, straplike. Fruits capsules, 1-seeded, nearly globose to ellipsoid, pericarp thin, indehiscent. Seeds dark brown, nearly globose or ellipsoid, smooth; perisperm canals 2, curved; aril reduced. x = 6.^[1] [more]

At least 61 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Thalia.

More info about the Genus Thalia may be found here.

Bibliography

• Andersson, L. 1981b. Revision of the Thalia geniculata complex (Marantaceae). Nordic J. Bot. 1: 48--56.
• Classen-Bockhoff, R. 1991. Untersuchungen zur Konstruktion des Bestäubungsapparates Von Thalia geniculata (Marantaceen). Bot. Acta 104: 183--193.
• Dressler, R. L. et al. 1987. Identification Manual for Wetland Plant Species of Florida.... Gainesville. P. 119.
• Godfrey, R. K. and J. W. Wooten. 1979. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States: Monocotyledons. Athens, Ga. Pp. 621--622.
• Gris, A. 1859. Observations sur la fleur des Marantées. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 4, 12: 193--219, plates 11--14.
• Koechlin, J. 1964. Marantacées. In: A. Aubréville and J.-F. Leroy. 1961+. Flore du Gabon. 354+ vols. Paris. Vol. 9, pp. 91--158.

Footnotes

1. "Thalia". in Flora of North America Vol. 22. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.

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