List of Canna species
Canna species have been categorised by two different taxonomists in the course of the last three decades. They are Paul Maas, from the Netherlands[1][2][3] and Nobuyuki Tanaka from Japan.[4] Both reduced the number of species from the 50-100 that had been accepted previously, and assigned most to being synonyms. Inevitably, there are some differences in their categorisations, and the individual articles on the species describes those differences.
The reduction in numbers is also confirmed by work done by Kress and Prince at the Smithsonian Institution, however, this only covers a subset of the species range.[5]
The Taxomic revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia, by Dr Tanaka.[4] is the latest authoritative reference, allied with the proposal to conserve the name Canna tuerckheimii over C. latifolia.[6] The most exhaustive work on Canna synonyms is that in the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP).[7]
List of species
The following list is based on the Taxomic revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia, by Dr Tanaka[4] and the proposal to conserve the name Canna tuerckheimii over C. latifolia.[6][7]
Cultivar type names
In addition, several species have been given cultivar-type names, and those are listed below:
See also
References
- ^ Maas, P. J. M. (1985) Cannaceae.
- ^ Maas, P. J. M. and H. Maas (1988) Cannaceae
- ^ Segeren, W & Maas, PJM - The genus Canna in northern South America
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab Tanaka, N. (2001) Taxonomic revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia.
- ^ Prince, Linda M.* and W. John Kress. Smithsonian Institution
- ^ a b c Proposal to conserve the name Canna tuerckheimii
- ^ a b WCSP
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Johnson's Gardner's Dictionary (1856)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Chaté, E. (1867) Le Canna, son histoire, son culture. Libraire Centrale d'Agriculture et de Jardinage.
- ^ a b c d e Robinson W. (1879) The Subtropical Garden, John Murray, Albermarle St, London, England.
- ^ a b c d e f g Prince, Linda M.* and W. John Kress. Smithsonian Institution
- ^ Cooke, Ian (2001) The Gardener's Guide to Growing Cannas
- ^ a b c d e f g h Kelsey H.F. & Dayton W.A. (1942) Standardized Plant names, American Joint Committee on Horticultural Nomenclature
Further reading
- Chaté, E. - Le Canna, 1866.
- Cooke, Ian (2001) The Gardener's Guide to Growing Cannas, Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-513-6
- Johnson's Gardner's Dictionary, 1856.
- Khoshoo, T.N. & Guha, I. - Origin and Evolution of Cultivated Cannas. Vikas Publishing House.
- Kress, W. J. 1990. The phylogeny and classification of the Zingiberales. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 77: 698—721.
- Kress, W. J. and D. E. Stone. 1982. Nature of the sporoderm in monocotyledons, with special reference to the pollen grains of Canna and Heliconia. Grana 21: 129—148.
- Maas, P. J. M. 1985. 195. Cannaceae. In: A. R. A. Görts-van Rijn, ed. 1985+. Flora of the Guianas. Series A: Phanerogams. 1212+ volsfasc. Königstein. VolFasc. 1, pp. xx—xx69—73 .
- Maas, P. J. M. and H. Maas. 1988. 223. Cannaceae. In: G. Harling et al., eds. 1973+. Flora of Ecuador. 5660+ volsnos. Göteborg. VolNo. 32, pp. 1–9.
- Moore, Thomas. 1892. The Gardener's Assistant. Blackie & Son Ltd.
- Percy-Lancaster, S., In an Indian Garden. 1927.
- Robinson W., The Subtropical Garden, John Murray, Albermarle St, London, England. 1879.
- Rogers, G. K. 1984. The Zingiberales (Cannaceae, Marantaceae, and Zingiberaceae) in the southeastern United States. J. Arnold Arbor. 65: 5—55.
- Segeren, W & Maas, PJM - The genus Canna in northern South America (1971), Acta Botanica Neerlandica. 20(6): 663-680.
- Tanaka, N. 2001. Taxonomic revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia. Makinoa ser. 2, 1:34–43.
- Woodson, R. E. Jr. and R. W. Schery. 1945. Cannaceae. In: R. E. Woodson Jr. et al., eds. 1943—1981. Flora of Panama. 41 fasc. St. Louis. [Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 32: 74—80.]
External links
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- Cannaceae in Flora of North America
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- Kew Gardens, London. Search PIC database
- Proposal to conserve the name Canna tuerckheimii
- PRINCE, LINDA M.* and W. JOHN KRESS. Smithsonian Institution, NMNH - Botany, MRC-166, Washington, DC 20560-0166. - Species boundaries in Canna (Cannaceae): evidence from nuclear ITS DNA sequence data.
- University of South Florida, Institute for Systematic Botany