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Canna jaegeriana

Species of plant

Canna leucocarpa Bouché
Canna pertusa Urb.

Canna jaegeriana is a species of herb in the family Cannaceae.

Description

Generally curved, orange, small (4–7.5 cm long) flowers with free part of staminodes erect, floral bracts mostly caducous, and upper side of leaves often dark brown to black in herbarium material, lower side more or less lanuginose. In addition, the seeds are ellipsoid and relatively small (4–7 × 2–4.5 mm).

Distribution

It occurs in the Greater Antilles (Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico) and tropical South America, north and west of the Amazon Basin (Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia).

References

Cooke, Ian, 2001. The Gardener's Guide to Growing cannas, Timber Press.
Johnson's Gardeners Dictionary, 1856
Tanaka, N. 2001. Taxonomic revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia. Makinoa ser. 2, 1:34–43.

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