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Thalia (plant)

Thalia
Thalia dealbata
Illustration by Sydenham Edwards in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1815
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Marantaceae
Genus: Thalia
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Synonyms[1]
  • Peronia Redouté
  • Malacarya Raf.
  • Spirostalis Raf.
  • Spirostylis Raf.

Thalia is a genus of flowering plants in the Marantaceae (prayer plant and arrowroot) family found mainly in aquatic, marshy and riparian zones in Eastern, Central and Western Africa—as far south as Zimbabwe—and the Americas, from Illinois in the north, through northern Argentina in the southern part of its range.[1] These plants can (and prefer to) grow with their roots and rhizomes fully submerged and their foliage growing emersed from the water's surface. They thrive in floodplains, vernal pools and other seasonally-inundated areas, as well. Alligator-flag is a common name for plants in this genus.[2] The generic name is in honor of Johannes Thal (1542–1583), a German doctor who wrote A Flora of the Harz Mountains.

Cultivation

Semihardy in cultivation, it needs protection against frosts. It can be propagated by seed or division of the rootstock in the spring.

Species

Species:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "World Checklist of Selected Plant Species".
  2. ^ NRCS. "Thalia". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 9 December 2015.
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