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Thalia geniculata

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Name

Identification
Thalia caerulea Ridl. [family MARANTACEAE ] Thalia geniculata L. [family MARANTACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Thalia divaricata
  • Thalia geniculata
  • Maranta galanga
  • Thalia welwitschii
  • Thalia angustifolia
  • Thalia caerulea
  • Thalia schumanniana
  • Thalia trichocalyx
  • Blechnum orientale
  • Thalia paniculata
  • Trichomanes capillaceum
Common name
  • bu yéyãmb (JB) bu yéyèmt (JB) é pepe (JB) fuya yambé (JB) fuyaãb (JB) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • fororõg (JB) (SENEGAL, BADYARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • gambirèr (JB) yampirè (SENEGAL, KONYAGI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • (Fogny) fuyayâb (K&A) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • arrowroot, Flora of North America Vol. 22
  • si ron (JB) (SENEGAL, BALANTA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • Fire-flag, Flora of North America Vol. 22
  • anafé iambd (JB) anafé iamèd (JB) anafi amad (JB) (SENEGAL, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for THALIA geniculata Linn. [family MARANTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
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.
Information
Whole plant 5–6 ft. high. Root-leaves with long petioles, sheathing the lower part of the stem; blade ovate or oblong, acute, rounded at the base, moderately firm, glabrous, very variable in size, often 1 ft. long, 4–6 in. broad; petiole with a glabrous cylindrical callus at the apex, 1/2–1 in. long. Panicle very large and lax; lower branches often subtended by reduced leaves; rhachis very flexuose; flower-bracts oblong, scariose, glabrous or hairy, 1/2–1 in. long. Flowers in pairs reaching to the tip of the bract, shortly pedicellate. Calyx very small. Petals oblong, obtuse. Staminodia usually obovate, violet, much longer than the petals. Capsule obovoid, 1/4 in. long.
Range
Also through Tropical America from Florida to Brazil.
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!

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