Common name: Fishbone Prayer Plant
Family: Marantaceae
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Country of Origin: Brazil (Espírito Santo)
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USDA Zone: 10a-11
Source: Peters
Provenance:
Specimen verified and name corrected (was labelled Calathea stromata) by Helen Kennedy (UBC) on February 1, 2008.
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Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: commelinids
- Order: Zingiberales
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- Family: Marantaceae
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References:
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, 29 January, 2019.
- WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Tuesday, 29 January, 2019.
- Images #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by Mark Pellegrini (Own work) [CC BY-SA 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Tuesday, September 26, 2017.
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