Spermatophyta: Monocotyledonae

Cannaceae - Indian shot family

Literature

Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.

Henderson, L. (2001) Alien weeds and invasive plants Plant Protection Research Institute Handbook No. 12. Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Council, S Africa.

Description of the family

Rhizomatous herbs with annual stems. Leaves large, spirally arranged, pinnately veined, with a sheathing base. Flowers in terminal bracteate spikes. Sepals free, persistent. Petals 3, shortly connate at base, unobtrusive, 1 smaller. Staminodes 1-4, petaloid, brightly coloured. Stamen 1, petaloid, bearing a half anther laterally. Style also petaloid with an oblique terminal stigma. Ovary inferior, 3-locular. Fruit a capsule.

Worldwide: 1 genus and 8-10 species, tropical and warm America.

Links to genera: (1) View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this family

Genus	Content
Canna L.	Description, Image

Other sources of information about Cannaceae:

Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Cannaceae page
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Cannaceae
Google: Web - Images - Scholar