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 [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] and Nobuyuki Tanaka from JapanTanaka, N. (2001) Taxonomic revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia.] . 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. [Prince, Linda M.* and W. John Kress. Smithsonian Institution]

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. The list differs following the proposal to conserve the name "Canna tuerckheimii" over "C. latifolia" [ [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax/2004/00000053/00000003/art00025 Proposal to conserve the name Canna tuerckheimii] ] , and the inclusion of "C. variegatifolia" Ciciar, [ [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=224013&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=224013&status=true Kew gardens Checklist Recording] ] which was identified in 1995, and which Dr Tanaka does not mention in his revision. The latter is recognised in the Kew Gardens checklist, which closely follows Dr Tanakas revision. [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/prepareChecklist.do?checklist=selected_families%40%40036050220082141663 Kew Gardens Checklists] ]

Notes

References

* 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., An Amateur 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

* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10155 Cannaceae in Flora of North America]
* [http://www.kew.org/wcsp/ Kew Gardens checklist of plant families]
* [http://www.kew.org/searchepic/searchpage.do Kew Gardens, London. Search PIC database]
* [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax/2004/00000053/00000003/art00025 Proposal to conserve the name Canna tuerckheimii]
* [http://www.botany2001.org/section12/abstracts/111.shtml 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.]
* [http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/synonyms.asp?plantID=1967 University of South Florida, Institute for Systematic Botany]

ee also

* Canna
* List of Canna cultivars
* List of Canna hybridists