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Accession Data:

Calathea lancifolia Boom

  • Common Name: Rattlesnake Plant
  • Family: Marantaceae Peterson

  • Country of Origin: Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201900133
  • Source: Kress Collection, SI#1999032
  • Provenance: 
    Donor# 77-0162

Brazil (Rio de Janeiro): 
Received as: plant
  • Accession Date: 07-10-2019
  • Bench: 1112 - AFR: Cola
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 02-21-2023

Classification:

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

References (internal):

  • Plants from the Kress Collection (NMNH/Smithsonian)
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Brazil Southeast

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, 02 May, 2019.
  2. WCSP (2019) (as Goeppertia insignis). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Thursday, 02 May, 2019.
  3. Image #00 (cropped) and #01 (original) by Serenity [CC BY-SA]. Last accessed on Monday, 13 January, 2020.

data regenerated on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 11:56:29 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Calathea lancifolia

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  • Goeppertia bella
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  • Goeppertia marantifolia
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  • Maranta cristata W/C
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  • Marantochloa conferta
  • Marantochloa purpurea
  • Marantachloa leucantha
  • Megaphrynium macrostachyum
  • Phrynium imbricatum W/C
  • Pleiostachya pruinosa
  • Saranthe sp.
  • Sarcophrynium brachystachyum
  • Stachyphrynium spicatum W/C
  • Stachyphrynium latifolium W/C
  • Stachyphrynium sp. W/C
  • Stromanthe thalia
  • Thalia geniculata
  • Thaumatococcus daniellii
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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