Wild Flowering Plants
| Marantaceae family Calathea lutea (Aublet) Schultes, Mant. 1: 8. 1822. Bas.: Maranta lutea Aublet (1775). Indigenous arborescent herb along river. A few stands along Bexon river, Bexon, which have probably disappeared after Hurricane Tomas. Many clumps observed River D'Orée, Choiseul, upstream of Pont George (2013). Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Margarita, Mesoamerica and South America. Also a cultivated ornamental |