Entry for THALIA geniculata Linn. [family MARANTACEAE]
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 293, (1898) Author: (By J. G. BAKER.)
Names
THALIA geniculata Linn. [family MARANTACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 3. —Rosc. Scit. t. 45; Horan. Prodr. 10; Peters. in Mart. Fl. Bras. III. iii. 142, t. 38, fig. 2.
Maranta geniculata Lam. [family MARANTACEAE], Illust. i. 9.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1791! Niamniam; Gumango Hill, Schweinfurth, 2873!Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot, 665!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea in rice fields about Mahela, Scott-Elliot, 4054! Falaba, Scott-Elliot, 5098!Dahomey Upper Guinea Godome, Newton, 16!Lagos Upper Guinea Yoruba; Abeokuta, Irving, 152! 158! and without precise locality, Moloney! Millen!Niger Upper Guinea Nupe, Barter, 1024! Hausa, Krause!Cameroons Upper Guinea Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 198! 608!