Marantochloa

Marantochloa
Marantochloa leucantha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Marantaceae
Genus:
Brongn. ex Gris
Type species
Marantochloa comorensis
Synonyms[2]
  • Clinogyne Salisb. ex Benth.
  • Ataenidia Gagnep.
Flowers of Marantochloa purpurea

Marantochloa is a genus of plant in family Marantaceae described as a genus in 1860.[1][3] It is native to tropical Africa and to islands in the Indian Ocean.

Species[2]
  • Marantochloa alba – Gabon
  • Marantochloa comorensis – Comoros, Madagascar
  • Marantochloa conferta – West and Central Africa
  • Marantochloa congensis – West and Central Africa
  • Marantochloa cordifolia – Central Africa
  • Marantochloa cuspidata – West and Central Africa
  • Marantochloa filipes – West and Central Africa
  • Marantochloa grandiflora – Gabon
  • Marantochloa incertifolia – Gabon
  • Marantochloa leucantha – tropical Africa
  • Marantochloa mannii – West and Central Africa
  • Marantochloa microphylla – Gabon, Cabinda, Republic of the Congo
  • Marantochloa mildbraedii – Gabon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon
  • Marantochloa monophylla – West and Central Africa
  • Marantochloa montsdecristalii – Gabon
  • Marantochloa purpurea – tropical Africa
  • Marantochloa ramosissima – West Africa
  • Marantochloa sulphurea – Gabon

References

  1. ^ a b Tropico, Marantochloa Brongn. ex Gris
  2. ^ a b "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families".
  3. ^ Gris, Jean Antoine Arthur. 1860. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 7: 320-321 in French and Latin


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