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Accession Data:

Thalia geniculata L.

  • Common Name: Bent Alligator Flag
  • Family: Marantaceae Peterson

  • Country of Origin: Trop. Africa, SE. U.S.A. to Trop. America

  • USDA Zone: 7a-10b

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201600062
  • Source: Chiltern 1236D
  • Accession Date: 06-23-2016
  • Bench: 1117 - AFR:South Tanks E
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 3 confirmed on 02-26-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Liliopsida
  • SubClass: commelinids
  • Order: Zingiberales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Marantaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016

References (internal):

  • Type Species
  • Medicinal Plants
  • Medicinal Plants - Traditional African Medicine
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Benin / Burkina / Ghana / Guinea-Bissau / Guinea / Ivory Coast / Liberia / Mali / Nigeria / Senegal / Sierra Leone / Togo / Central African Republic / Cameroon / Congo / Equatorial Guinea / Gabon / Zaire / Chad / Sudan / Angola / Zambia / Zimbabwe / Florida / Louisiana / Mexico Gulf / Mexico Southwest / Mexico Southeast / Belize / Costa Rica / Guatemala / Honduras / Nicaragua / Panama / Cuba / Dominican Republic / Haiti / Jamaica / Leeward Is. / Puerto Rico / Trinidad-Tobago / French Guiana / Guyana / Suriname / Venezuela / Bolivia / Colombia / Ecuador / Brazil West-Central / Brazil Northeast / Brazil Southeast / Brazil North / Brazil South / Argentina Northeast / Argentina Northwest / Paraguay

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, August 18, 2016.
  2. WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Thursday, August 18, 2016.
  3. Thalia geniculata at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Thursday, August 18, 2016.
  4. Images #00 (cropped) and #01 (original) by Meneerke bloem [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed Wednesday, 14 November, 2018.

data regenerated on Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:42:37 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Thalia geniculata

Additional images for this accession:

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W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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