Peltandra

This is about the plant in the family Araceae. The homonym Peltranda Wight is a synonym of the genus Meineckia in the Phyllanthaceae

Arrow arum
Peltandra virginica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Aroideae
Tribe: Peltandreae
Genus: Peltandra
Raf.
Range of the genus Peltandra.
Synonyms[1]
  • Lecontia W.Cooper ex Torr.
  • Rensselaeria L.C.Beck

Peltandra, the arrow arums,[2] is a genus of plants in the Araceae family. It is native to the eastern United States, eastern Canada, and Cuba.[1][3][4][5]

Species[1]
  1. Peltandra sagittifolia - (Michx.) Morong - Spoon flower or the White arrow arum - southeastern US from eastern Louisiana to Virginia
  2. Peltandra virginica (L.) Schott - Arum arrow - Cuba, Quebec, Ontario, Oregon, California, Washington; eastern US from Maine to Florida, west to Texas, Kansas, and Minnesota
  3. †Peltandra primaeva – Eocene, Golden Valley Formation, North Dakota, USA[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ "Peltandra". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  4. ↑ Flora of North America Vol. 22 Page 135, Arrow arum, Peltandra Rafinesque, Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts. 89:103. 1819.
  5. ↑ Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution maps
  6. ↑ Hickey, Leo (1977). Stratigraphy and Paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Paleogene) of Western North Dakota. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America. pp. 110 & Plate 5. ISBN 0-8137-1150-9.
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