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Maranta leuconeura

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Internal ID UUID6440004d57381239429673
Scientific name Maranta leuconeura
Authority É.Morren
First published in Ann. Hort. Belge Étrangère 24: 323 (1874)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Calathea leuconeura (É.Morren) N.E.Br. Suppl. Johnson's Gard. Dict. 890. 1882
Calathea massangeana É.Morren ex L.Gentil Liste Pl. Cult. Serres Chaudes Jard. Bot. État 43. 1907 Nomen
Maranta depressa É.Morren Ann. Bot. Hort. 30: 97 (1880)
Maranta fascinator L.Linden & Rodigas Ill. Hort. 41: 105 (1894)
Maranta kerchoviana É.Morren Ann. Bot. Hort. 29: 77 (1879)
Maranta leuconeura var. erythroneura G.S.Bunting Baileya 14: 45 (1966)
Maranta leuconeura var. kerchoveana Petersen Fl. Bras. (Martius) 3(3): 151. 1890 [1 Jan 1890]
Maranta leuconeura var. massangeana É.Morren ex Planch. Nursery Cat. (William Bull) 1877: 45 (1877)
Maranta massangeana É.Morren Ann. Bot. Hort. 25: 178 (1875)
Calathea fascinator (L.Linden & Rodigas) L.H.Bailey Cycl. Amer. Hort. 1: 213 (1900)
Maranta kerchovei Van Geert Nursery Cat. (Auguste Van Geert) 78: 17 (1879)
Maranta massangeana unranked atrata G.Nicholson Ill. Dict. Gard. , Cent. Suppl.: 183 (1900)
Maranta massangeana unranked florentina G.Nicholson Ill. Dict. Gard. , Cent. Suppl.: 183 (1900)
Maranta massangeana unranked metallica G.Nicholson Ill. Dict. Gard. , Cent. Suppl.: 183 (1900)
Calathea leuconeura (É.Morren) G.Nicholson Ill. Dict. Gard. 1: 237 (1884)
Calathea massangeana (É.Morren) G.Nicholson Ill. Dict. Gard. 1: 237 (1884)
Maranta leuconeura var. kerchoveana É.Morren Ann. Bot. Hort. 29: 77 (1879)
Maranta massangeana (É.Morren) W.Bull Nursery Cat. (William Bull) 142: 45 (1877)
Maranta leuconeura var. massangeana É.Morren Ann. Bot. Hort. 25: 178 (1875)
Calathea kerchoveana (É.Morren) André Ill. Hort. 26: 106 (1879)

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Language Common/alternative name
English prayerplant
English prayer plant
German pfeilwurz
German gebetspflanze
Persian مارانتا لوکونورا
Finnish nukkumatti
Hebrew צמח תפילה
Hebrew מרנטה
Indonesian tanaman doa
Italian pianta della preghiera
Latvian baltdzīslu maranta
Macedonian Молитвено растение
Swedish moses stentavlor
Chinese 豹纹竹芋
Chinese 豹紋竹芋
Chinese 白脉竹芋

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  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil Northeast
      • Brazil Southeast
      • Brazil West-central
    • Western South America
      • Colombia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000467179
USDA Plants MALE7
Tropicos 50147959
INPN 447850
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:797361-1
The Plant List kew-253360
Missouri Botanical Garden 292048
Open Tree Of Life 4664
Observations.org 337096
NCBI Taxonomy 34203
IPNI 797361-1
iNaturalist 366346
GBIF 2761337
Freebase /m/0pd9kkw
EPPO MARLE
EOL 1116504
Elurikkus 298119
USDA GRIN 407135
Wikipedia Maranta_leuconeura

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Commodity risk assessment of Ligustrum ovalifolium and Ligustrum vulgare plants from the UK Bragard C, Baptista P, Chatzivassiliou E, Di Serio F, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, MacLeod A, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Reignault PL, Stefani E, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Civera AV, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Battisti A, Mas H, Rigling D, Faccoli M, Mikulová A, Mosbach‐Schulz O, Stergulc F, Streissl F, Gonthier P EFSA J 07-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10918603
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8648
PMID:38455154
Pest categorisation of Diaprepes abbreviatus Bragard C, Baptista P, Chatzivassiliou E, Di Serio F, Gonthier P, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Reignault PL, Stefani E, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Vicent Civera A, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Grégoire J, Malumphy C, Kertesz V, Maiorano A, MacLeod A EFSA J 15-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10648563
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8318
PMID:38027434
Cross-School Collaboration to Develop and Implement Self-Construction Greening Systems for Schools Teichmann F, Kirchengast I, Korjenic A Plants (Basel) 10-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9860625
doi:10.3390/plants12020327
PMID:36679040
Sugarcane Mosaic Disease: Characteristics, Identification and Control Lu G, Wang Z, Xu F, Pan YB, Grisham MP, Xu L Microorganisms 17-Sep-2021
PMCID:PMC8468687
doi:10.3390/microorganisms9091984
PMID:34576879
Rutin: A Flavonoid as an Effective Sensitizer for Anticancer Therapy; Insights into Multifaceted Mechanisms and Applicability for Combination Therapy Satari A, Ghasemi S, Habtemariam S, Asgharian S, Lorigooini Z Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 23-Aug-2021
PMCID:PMC8416379
doi:10.1155/2021/9913179
PMID:34484407
Targeting Multiple Signaling Pathways in Cancer: The Rutin Therapeutic Approach Nouri Z, Fakhri S, Nouri K, Wallace CE, Farzaei MH, Bishayee A Cancers (Basel) 14-Aug-2020
PMCID:PMC7463935
doi:10.3390/cancers12082276
PMID:32823876
The complete chloroplast genome of ‘black tiger 2’ (Kadsura coccinea (lem.) A.C. Smith) in southeast of China and phylogenetic relationshipsAQ1 Yang J, Wang XA, Gao MY, Wei XX Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 13-Dec-2019
PMCID:PMC7720960
doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1698328
PMID:33366527
The complete chloroplast genome of Eichhornia crassipes (Pontederiaceae) and phylogeny of commelinids Ma Q, Lu Y Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 23-Sep-2019
PMCID:PMC7706893
doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1667901
PMID:33365911
Evaluation of rapid molecular diagnostics for differentiating medicinal Kaempferia species from its adulterants Basak S, Aadi Moolam R, Parida A, Mitra S, Rangan L Plant Divers 16-Apr-2019
PMCID:PMC6704042
doi:10.1016/j.pld.2019.04.003
PMID:31453420
Bipolaris marantae sp. nov., A Novel Helminthosporoid Species Causing Foliage Blight of the Garden Plant Maranta leuconeura in Brazil Lourenço CC, Alves JL, Guatimosim E, Colman A, Barreto RW Mycobiology 30-Sep-2017
PMCID:PMC5673507
doi:10.5941/MYCO.2017.45.3.123
PMID:29138616
Loss of YABBY2-Like Gene Expression May Underlie the Evolution of the Laminar Style in Canna and Contribute to Floral Morphological Diversity in the Zingiberales Morioka K, Yockteng R, Almeida AM, Specht CD Front Plant Sci 16-Dec-2015
PMCID:PMC4679924
doi:10.3389/fpls.2015.01106
PMID:26734021
Electrical Signals in Prayer Plants (Marantaceae)? Insights into the Trigger Mechanism of the Explosive Style Movement Jerominek M, Claßen-Bockhoff R PLoS One 21-May-2015
PMCID:PMC4440630
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126411
PMID:25997015
Micropropagation of an Exotic Ornamental Plant, Calathea crotalifera, for Production of High Quality Plantlets Efzueni Rozali S, Rashid KA, Mat Taha R ScientificWorldJournal 20-Jul-2014
PMCID:PMC4127217
doi:10.1155/2014/457092
PMID:25136669
Resolving ancient radiations: can complete plastid gene sets elucidate deep relationships among the tropical gingers (Zingiberales)? Barrett CF, Specht CD, Leebens-Mack J, Stevenson DW, Zomlefer WB, Davis JI Ann Bot 25-Nov-2013
PMCID:PMC3864734
doi:10.1093/aob/mct264
PMID:24280362
Ribosomal protein L10 is encoded in the mitochondrial genome of many land plants and green algae Mower JP, Bonen L BMC Evol Biol 16-Nov-2009
PMCID:PMC2780418
doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-265
PMID:19917118

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