{"id":1320991,"date":"2015-06-07T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T11:04:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:26:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:56:52","slug":"thalia-dealbata","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/thalia-dealbata\/","title":{"rendered":"Thalia dealbata (Cultivated)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thalia<\/i> dealbata<\/i> Fraser ex Roscoe, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 8:340. 1807 (syn: Malacarya dealbata<\/i> (Fraser) Raf.; Maranta dealbata<\/i> (Fraser) A.Dietr.; Peronia stricta<\/i> Redout\u00e9; Spirostalis biflora<\/i> Raf.; Spirostylis biflora<\/i> Raf.;\u00a0Thalia barbata<\/i> Small); <\/div>\n
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Thalia dealbata<\/i> (Powdery thalia<\/b>, Hardy canna<\/b>, Powdery alligator-flag<\/b>) is an aquatic plant<\/font><\/a> in the family Marantaceae<\/font><\/a>, native<\/font> to swamps, ponds and other wetlands<\/font> in the southern and central <\/font>United States<\/font><\/a>.[2]<\/font><\/a><\/sup>[3]<\/font><\/a><\/sup>[4]<\/font><\/a><\/sup> Its range includes much of Coastal Plains and the lower <\/font>Mississippi Valley<\/font><\/a> (States of <\/font>South Carolina<\/font><\/a>, <\/font>Georgia<\/font><\/a>, <\/font>Alabama<\/font><\/a>, <\/font>Mississippi<\/font><\/a>, <\/font>Louisiana<\/font><\/a>, <\/font>Texas<\/font><\/a>, <\/font>Oklahoma<\/font><\/a>, <\/font>Arkansas<\/font><\/a>, <\/font>Missouri<\/font><\/a>, <\/font>Illinois<\/font><\/a> and <\/font>Kentucky<\/font><\/a>).[5]<\/font><\/a><\/sup> The plant has been grown as an aquatic ornamental because of the pretty violet flowers, and in cultivation has been proved hardy as far north as <\/font>Philadelphia<\/font><\/a> (<\/font>Pennsylvania<\/font><\/a>) and <\/font>Vancouver<\/font><\/a> (<\/font>British Columbia<\/font><\/a>).[6]<\/font><\/a><\/sup>[7]<\/font><\/a><\/sup>[8]<\/font><\/a><\/sup><\/font><\/p>\n

Thalia dealbata<\/i> grows to 6 ft (1.8 m), with small violet flowers on an 8 in (20 cm) panicle held above the foliage. The blue-green leaves are ovate to lanceolate, dusted with white powder and with purple edges.[9]<\/font><\/a><\/sup>[10]<\/font><\/a><\/sup><\/font><\/div>\n
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Thalia dealbata Fraser ex Roscoe from Plantae Paradise, Datya Vill. near Parwanu, Shimla Road-GSJUNE06\/11<\/a> : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)<\/div>\n
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Thalia dealbata<\/i> Fraser ex Roscoe, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 8:340<\/font>. 1807<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
Powdery Thalia<\/font>, <\/span>Powdery Aligator Flag<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Aquatic plant of shallow waters, with basal lanceolate-elliptic to oblong-ovate leaves on long petioles; flowers small, purple, crowded in narrow panicles, at tip of up to 3 m long scape, subtended by purple bracts; sepals 3, corolla 3-lobed, or nearly divided.<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
Photographed at Plantae Paradise<\/font>, <\/font>Datya Vill., near Parwanu, along Shimla Road<\/font>. <\/p>\n
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SK398 03MAR-2017:ID<\/a> : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments<\/span> (5)<\/font><\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n

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Location: Shanghai,\u00a0China<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
Altitude: 100 -200 ft.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
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Some Alpina<\/i> sp..??<\/p>\n

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May be a Marantaceae<\/i> member.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Thank you …!\u00a0\u00a0Thalia dealbata\u00a0<\/i>Fraser (accepted name)<\/p>\n

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\n(unresolved)\u00a0<\/span>Tropicos<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0 Dave\u2019s Garden<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thalia dealbata Fraser ex Roscoe, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 8:340. 1807 (syn: Malacarya dealbata (Fraser) Raf.; Maranta dealbata (Fraser) A.Dietr.; Peronia stricta Redout\u00e9; Spirostalis biflora Raf.; Spirostylis biflora Raf.;\u00a0Thalia barbata Small); \u00a0 Thalia dealbata (Powdery thalia, Hardy canna, Powdery alligator-flag) is an aquatic plant in the family Marantaceae, native to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[7174],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1320991","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-thalia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1320991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1320991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1320991"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1320991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}