''Canna patens'' is a species of
herb
In general use, herbs are a widely distributed and widespread group of plants, excluding vegetables and other plants consumed for macronutrients, with savory or aromatic properties that are used for flavoring and garnishing food, for medicinal ...
in the
Cannaceae family.
Description
Small sized with spreading habit and thick rhizomes (these up to 3 cm in diameter). Green ovate leaves; green triangular stems; upright spikes with flowers of yellow petals with a wide red margin; staminodes are long and narrow, edges regular; capsules globose.
Taxonomy
Paul Maas and
Nobuyuki Tanaka
is an economic botanist at the Tokyo Metropolitan University, the Makino Botanical Garden in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan.
Tanaka is an expert on the family Cannaceae
''Canna'' or canna lily is the only genus of flowering plants in the family Ca ...
, both experts on the genus ''Canna'' have different opinions regarding this species. Maas considers ''C''. ''patens'' a synonym of ''
C. indica'', but Tanaka considers it a distinct and separate species according to DNA analysis.
See also
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Canna
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List of Canna species
''Canna (plant), Canna'' species have been categorised by two different taxonomists in the course of the last three decades. They are Paulus Johannes Maria Maas, Paul Maas, from the Netherlands and Nobuyuki Tanaka from Japan.Tanaka, N. (2001) Taxo ...
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List of Canna cultivars
This list of ''Canna'' cultivars is a gallery of named cultivars of plants in the genus '' Canna'' that are representative of the various ''Canna'' cultivar groups (i.e., groups of very similar cultivars).
Names of cultivars conform to the rules ...
References
* Cooke, Ian, 2001. The Gardener's Guide to Growing cannas, Timber Press.
* Tanaka, N. 2001. Taxonomic revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia. Makinoa ser. 2, 1:34–43.
External links
Canna ''patens'' in the Claines Canna Collection
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patens
A paten or diskos is a small plate, used during the Mass. It is generally used during the liturgy itself, while the reserved sacrament are stored in the tabernacle in a ciborium.
Western usage
In many Western liturgical denominations, the p ...