Accession Data
Maranta arundinacea
Common Name: Arrowroot
Family: Marantaceae
Country of Origin: Mexico to Trop. America
Description: Arrowroot was one of the earliest plants to be domesticated for food in northern South America, with evidence of exploitation or cultivation of the plant dating back to 8200 BCE.4
Accession Data
Accession #: 201900216
Accession Date: 2019-07-10 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 3207
Quantity: 2
Source: Kress Collection, SI#2002128
Provenance:
Kress# 02-7144 Kress, W. J., Temeles, E., Clark, J., Lopez, I. Dominica: St. Joseph Parish Layou River Road. 15.4128, -61.3925, 25 Apr 2002 herb, Shoots to 1 m, shoots and leaves green. Tubers white. Flowers ephemeral, white.
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Marantaceae
Flowering Data:
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References
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
- WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
- Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) used with the permission of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193. Last accessed on Monday, 15 July, 2019.
- Wikipedia. Last accessed on Wednesday, 16 October, 2019.
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