Maranta leuconeura

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 Maranta leuconeura subsp. var.  
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Maranta leuconeura, Morr. Dwarf, the st. and lvs. about 1 ft. high, not tuberculate at base: lvs. oblong or broadly elliptic, usually obtuse or very short-acuminate, grayish green, white striped or banded along the veins, and marked with darker green, glaucous or purple beneath; outer staminode white, obovate and emarginate. Native in Brazil.

Var. Massangeana, Schum. (M. Massangeana, Morr. M. bicolor var. Massangeana, Hort.). Lvs. smaller, beautiful purple beneath: fls. somewhat smaller, the sepals about 1/6 in. long: staminode deep violet,- somewhat 3-lobed.

Var. Kerchoveana, Morr. (M. Kerchoveana, Hort.). Lvs. larger, glaucous or red-spotted beneath: fls. larger; staminode entire.


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