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Ornamental Marantaceae: An introduction
Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products, 2022Amongst the plants which have grasped the aesthete of humans, those categorized within the angiosperm plant family Marantaceae have acquired significance. A list of such plants is being provided along with description for laymen’s ease in identification. Inventorization of further arrowroots and their bio-prospecting will lead to India’s emergence as a
Ankur Saikia +2 more
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The Sarawak Museum Journal, 2004
A study of two herbaceous plant families, the Zingiberaceae and Marantaceae,was conducted at 20 hills at the Bau Limestone Area. A total of 26 and three species were found respectively in the two families. The most frequent species was Zingiber acuminatum var. borneense which was documented from nine hills.
Axel Dalberg Poulsen +3 more
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A study of two herbaceous plant families, the Zingiberaceae and Marantaceae,was conducted at 20 hills at the Bau Limestone Area. A total of 26 and three species were found respectively in the two families. The most frequent species was Zingiber acuminatum var. borneense which was documented from nine hills.
Axel Dalberg Poulsen +3 more
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Taxonomic revision of Myrosma (Marantaceae)
Blumea: Journal of Plant Taxonomy and Plant Geography, 2012 Myrosma is a genus of rosulate herbs characterized by a compact and strongly monosymmetric inflorescence with conspicuous, white to pale green, mostly membranous bracts, in the axil of which is a single flower pair. The genus is widely distributed throughout Central Brazil, northern South America, and the Caribbean region.
P J M Maas
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The Marantaceae of Sabah, Northern Borneo
Kew Bulletin, 2003A taxonomic treatment is provided for the Marantaceae of the Malaysian state of Sabah in northern Borneo. Thirteen species are recognised, four of which are described as new to science: Phacelophrynium aurantium, Phacelophrynium laxum, Phrynium grandibracteatum and Phrynium slenophyllum.
Clausager, K., Borchsenius, Finn
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Leaf movement in Calathea lutea (Marantaceae)
Oecologia, 1985Calathea lutea is a broad-leaved, secondary successional plant which shows complex leaf movements involving both elevation and folding of the leaf surface about the pulvinus. In the plants studied, mean leaf elevation increased from approximately 34 degrees in the early morning to 70 degrees at noon while the angle of leaf folding increased from 13 ...
Thomas J, Herbert, Parry B, Larsen
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Setting‐up tension in the style of Marantaceae
Plant Biology, 2008AbstractThe Marantaceae stand out from other plant families through their unique style movement which is combined with a highly derived form of secondary pollen presentation. Although known for a long time, the mechanism underlying the movement is not yet understood.
E, Pischtschan, R, Classen-Bockhoff
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Notes on Ischnosiphon (Marantaceae)
Nordic Journal of Botany, 1984Four new species are described, viz. Ischnosiphon bahiensis (Brazil), I. ursinus (French Guiana and Rio Negro Basin), I. crassispicus (vicinity of Manaus), and I. fusiformis
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Nomenclatural Notes on Neotropical Marantaceae
Brittonia, 1987Two new combinations are made:Stromanthe macrochlamys (Woodson & Standley), transferred fromCalathea, andCtenanthe amabilis (Morren), transferred fromStromanthe. Calathea crotalifera S. Watson from Guatemala is an earlier name forC. insignis Petersen.
Helen Kennedy, Dan H. Nicolson
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DEVELOPMENT OF OVULE AND SEED IN MARANTACEAE
Acta Botanica Neerlandica, 1983SUMMARY The development of ovule, seed and seed coat in a few representatives of the Marantaceae was studied. A subdermally initiated outer integument was found in a monocotyledon for the first time. The seed, which belongs to the most complex among the monocotyledons, is campylotropous and, furthermore, characterised by a so-called perisperm ...
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Sanblasia, a new genus of the Marantaceae
Nordic Journal of Botany, 1984Sanblasia dressleri is described from material from the Serranía de San Blas, E Panamá. The inflorescence has the general appearance of an Ischnosiphon , but the ovary is 3–ovulate, as in Calathea , and the bracteole is channeled and
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