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|accepted_name=Maranta
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 2. 1753; Gen. Pl., ed. 5; 2, 1754
|year=1754
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|common_names=Arrowroot;prayer-plant
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Marantaceae;Maranta
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Marantaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Maranta]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Bartolomea Maranti, Venetian physician and botanist who lived during the mid 1500s
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>terrestrial, prostrate, scandent, or upright, usually dying back to rhizome during dry season, 0.1–1.5(–1.8) m. <b>Rhizomes</b> occasionally swollen, storing starch. <b>Stems</b> branched or unbranched with basal and cauline leaves to highly branched above elongate, cane-like stem (internode) with few or no basal leaves. <b>Leaves</b> homotropic [rarely antitropic]; sheath usually auriculate, not spongy; blade [patterned] plain green, ovate to elliptic. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually 2–several per shoot, spikel-like, unbranched; bracts persistent, subtending 2–6 pedicellate flower pairs, herbaceous; prophylls keeled, membranous; secondary bracts absent; bracteoles usually absent. <b>Flowers</b> self-fertilizing [or outcrossing], corolla white, staminodes white [purple]; sepals persistent in fruit, more than 5 mm, herbaceous; corolla tube [4–]12–14 mm, corolla lobes unequal; outer staminodes 2, petal-like; callose staminode apex usually petal-like; cucullate staminode with 1 appendage, medial [subterminal], flaplike [fingerlike]; stylar movement in single plane; style unappendaged. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, 1-seeded, obliquely ellipsoid, pericarp relatively thin, dehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> brown, ellipsoid, rugose; perisperm canal 1, distally branched; aril conspicuous, white.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropical and subtropical regions;s Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (to n Argentina).
|discussion=<p>Species 32 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=andersson1986a
|text=Andersson, L. 1986. Revision of Maranta subgen. Maranta. Nordic J. Bot. 6: 729--756.
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|id=anonymous1893a
|text=Anonymous. 1893. St. Vincent arrowroot. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1893: 191--204.
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|id=hodge1957a
|text=Hodge, W. H. and D. Taylor. 1957. The ethnobotany of the Island Caribs of Dominica. Webbia 12: 513--644.
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|id=morton1977a
|text=Morton, J. F. 1977. Wild Plants for Survival in South Florida, ed. 4. Miami.
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|id=purseglove1972a
|text=Purseglove, J. W. 1972. Tropical Crops. Monocotyledons. 2 vols. London. Pp. 336--342.
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|id=sturtevant1969a
|text=Sturtevant, W. C. 1969. History and ethnography of some West Indian starches. In: P. J. Ucko and G. W. Dimbleby, eds. 1969. The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals. Chicago. Pp. 177--199.
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name=Maranta
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Marantaceae
|distribution=Tropical and subtropical regions;s Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (to n Argentina).
|reference=andersson1986a;anonymous1893a;hodge1957a;morton1977a;purseglove1972a;sturtevant1969a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1754
|special status=
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|genus=Maranta
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