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Marantaceae, commonly called "prayer plants", since their leaves raise at the evening and look as if they're praying. Calathea, a genus of the above family that are called "prayer plants" Goeppertia, a genus where many species of Calathea have been reassigned; Maranta leuconeura, a popular houseplant species in this family
Maranta leuconeura var. erythroneura (prayer plant) "praying", i.e., raising its leaves for the evening Maranta leuconeura is a well-known houseplant in temperate regions, requiring a minimum temperature of 15 °C (59 °F).
The leaves are flat by day and folded up as the day comes to an end, hence the common name "prayer plant" which attaches to the genus and its species - notably M. leuconeura. [4] The flowers are small with three petals and two larger petal-like staminodes.
The Marantaceae are a family, the arrowroot family, or the prayer plant family, of flowering plants consisting of 31 genera and around 530 species, defining it as one of the most species-rich families in its order. [2] [3] Species of this family are found in lowland tropical forests of Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Calathea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Marantaceae. They are commonly called calatheas or (like their relatives) prayer plants. About 200 species formerly assigned to Calathea are now in the genus Goeppertia. [1] Calathea currently contains around 60 species.
Goeppertia ornata (syn. Calathea ornata, also called variously striped, pin-stripe, or pin-stripe calathea) is a species of perennial plant in the family known as the prayer plants. It is native to South America ( Colombia , Venezuela ), and is cultivated in temperate countries as a houseplant .
Chimaphila maculata (spotted wintergreen, also called striped wintergreen, striped prince's pine, spotted pipsissewa, ratsbane, or rheumatism root) is a small, perennial, evergreen herb native to eastern North America and Central America, from southern Quebec west to Illinois, and south to Florida and Panama.
Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [1] These scientific names have been catalogued in a variety of works, including Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners.