Family Cannaceae Rank Species | Genus Canna Higher classification Canna | |
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Similar Canna, Canna compacta, Canna speciosa, Canna coccinea, Canna pedunculata | ||
Canna patens (Roscoe) Tb. Tanaka is a species of the Canna genus; small sized; green foliage, ovoid shaped, spreading habit; triangular stems, coloured green; spikes of flowers are upright, yellow with a wide red margin, staminodes are long and narrow, edges regular, petals yellow, partial self-cleaning; fertile both ways, self-pollinating and also true to type, capsules globose; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured white; tillering is prolific.
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In the last three decades of the 20th century, Canna species have been categorised by two different taxonomists, Paul Maas from the Netherlands and Nobuyuki Tanaka from Japan. Maas considers C. patens a synonym of C. indica, but Tanaka considers it a distinct and separate species according to DNA analysis.