Canna patens

Canna patens
fruit of C. patens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Cannaceae
Genus: Canna
Species: C. patens
Binomial name
Canna patens
(Roscoe) Tb. Tanaka

Canna patens (Roscoe) Tb. Tanaka is a species of the Canna genus; small sized; green foliage, ovoid shaped, spreading habit; triangular stems, coloured green; spikes of flowers are upright, yellow with a wide red margin, staminodes are long and narrow, edges regular, petals yellow, partial self-cleaning; fertile both ways, self-pollinating and also true to type, capsules globose; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured white; tillering is prolific.

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Taxonomy

In the last three decades of the 20th century, Canna species have been categorised by two different taxonomists, Paul Maas from the Netherlands and Nobuyuki Tanaka from Japan. Maas considers C. patens a synonym of C. indica, but Tanaka considers it a distinct and separate species according to DNA analysis.

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