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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Calathea lancifolia - Boom.
Family
Marantaceae
Common Name
Prayer plant
Habit
Herb
Synonym
Calathea insignis W. Bull.
Habitat
Shady and warm places
Color Of Flower
White
Key Characters
Ovary 3-locular, 1 ovuled in each.
Systematic Position
Division :
Monocotyledonae
 
Class :
Epigynae
 
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Plant Description

Evergreen, low-growing, rhizo natons, tropical, perennial; leaves broad, oval, upto 8 inches long by half as wide, leaves fold upward at height graying green to purplish green; flowers are small with three petals and with two longer petal like staminodes; white fruit in either fleshy or a loculicidally capsule.

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