Thalia (plant)

Thalia is a genus of six currently recognized species found in aquatic or marshy habitats, ranging in Africa from Senegal to Sudan to Zimbabwe, and in the Americas from Illinois to Argentina.[1] 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.

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.

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. "World Checklist of Selected Plant Species".
  2. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Thalia". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
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