''Marantochloa'' is a genus of

plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

in family

Marantaceae The Marantaceae are a family, the arrowroot family, or the prayer plant 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). “Diversif ...

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

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and to islands in the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia (continent), ...

. ; Species

References

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