Accession #: 201900211
Accession Date: 2019-07-10
Common name: White Indianthus
Family: Marantaceae
Synonym(s): <i>Schumannianthus virgatus</i> (Roxb.) Rolfe
Country of Origin: S. India, Sri Lanka, Andaman Is.
Description: A perennial rhizomatous herbaceous species, evergreen, that forms thick tufts with simple, thin, 1,5-4 m tall stems. The leaves on an about 1 cm long petiole, are distichous, lanceolate, with entire margin and cuspidate apex, of bright green colour, coriaceous, 15-45 cm long and 4-15 cm broad. Panicle terminal inflorescences up to about 50 cm long, dichotomous, with thin ramifications and white flowers, odourless, in pair, subtended by a green lanceolate bract, about 4 cm long and 0,5 cm broad. Deciduous sepals, short, lanceolate with pointed apex, corolla with tube shorter than the sepals and 3 oblong lobes, 2 outer obovate petaloid staminodia, about 1,5 cm long, the inner ones being smaller and trilocular ovary. The fruits are obovoid berries of green colour.4
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Source: Kress Collection, SI#1994848
Provenance:
Rcvd as Schumannianthus virgatus (Roxb.) Rolfe Kress# 94-5264 Kress, W. J., Bordelon, M. ex hort., United States: Hawaii Univ. of H., Manoa Valley. 17 Nov 1994
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