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Accession Data:

Indianthus virgatus (Roxb.) Suksathan & Borchs.

Common Name: White Indianthus
Family: Marantaceae Peterson
Synonym(s): Schumannianthus virgatus (Roxb.) Rolfe

Country of Origin: S. India, Sri Lanka, Andaman Is.
Habitat: swampy areas and along the banks of the water streams

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 ovate), and broadly tapering to each end; wider than oblanceolate.">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

Accession Data:

Accession # 201900211
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

Accession Date: 07-10-2019
Bench: 3206 - ZING:tbd
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 07-26-2024

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: India / Sri Lanka / Andaman Is.

References (external):

The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Monday, 15 July, 2019.
WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Monday, 15 July, 2019.
Image #00 (cropped) & #01, #02 (original) (as Schumannianthus virgatus) 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.
Monaco Nature Encyclopedia. Last accessed on Wednesday, 29 January, 2020.
Flowers of India. Last accessed on Wednesday, 29 January, 2020.

data regenerated on Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:00:08 -0500 [bcm v4.0]