''Marantochloa'' is a genus of

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...

in family

Marantaceae The Marantaceae are a family, the arrowroot family, of flowering plants consisting of 31 genera and around 530 species, defining it as one of the most species-rich families in its order.Kennedy, H. (2000). “Diversification in pollination mechan ...

described as a genus in 1860.Tropico, ''Marantochloa'' Brongn. ex Gris
/ref>Gris, Jean Antoine Arthur. 1860. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 7: 320-321
in French and Latin It is native to tropical

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

and to islands in the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

. ; Species

References

Zingiberales genera Flora of Africa Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart Taxa named by Jean Antoine Arthur Gris {{Zingiberales-stub