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

Canna jaegeriana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Zingiberales
Family:	Cannaceae
Genus:	Canna
Species:	C. jaegeriana
Binomial name
Canna jaegeriana Urb.
Synonyms
Canna domingensis Urb. Canna leucocarpa Bouché Canna pertusa Urb.

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. ISBN 0-88192-513-6
• 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.

External links

• Kew Gardens, Checklist of plant families^{[permanent dead link]}
• Proposal to conserve the name Canna jaegeriana

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