Stromanthe

Plant Characteristics
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial

Cultivation

Scientific Names
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Stromanthe is a genus of plant in family Marantaceae.

Read about Stromanthe in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Stromanthe (Greek, couch and flower; said to allude to the form of inflorescence). Marantaceae. Perennial herbs grown in the warmhouse for the foliage. Stems leafy, erect, from a thick horizontal rhizome, somewhat branched, the base covered by the long lf.- sheaths: lvs. short-petioled: infl. rather lax, terminal on a long peduncle, more or less compound, rarely narrow, almost raceme-like, frequently all colored blood-red; bracts and bractlets spathe-like, colored; sepals 3, free, oval-oblong; petals 3, slightly narrower than the sepals; ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled: fr. subglobose.—About 12 species, S. Amer. (Schumann, in Engler's Das Pflanzenreich, hft. 11.—IV. 48). Closely allied to Calathea, Maranta, Phrynium and Thalia. It agrees with Maranta and Thalia in having a 1-loculed caps., and thereby differs from Calathea and Phrynium, which have 3 locules. From Maranta it differs in having a very short perianth-tube and the segms. not standing opposite each other. From Thalia it differs, as does Maranta, in having 2 side staminodia rather than 1. For cult., see remarks under Calathea. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Cultivation

It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete):

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