Cannaspecies have been categorised by two different
taxonomists in the course of the last three decades. They are
Paul Maas, from the
Netherlands[1][2][3] and
Nobuyuki Tanaka from
Japan.[4] 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 describe the differences.
The reduction in the number of species is also confirmed by work done by Kress and Prince at the Smithsonian Institution, however, this only covers a subset of the species range.[5]
Tanaka's 2001 Taxonomic revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia is one source of species names,[4] allied with the proposal to conserve the name Canna tuerckheimii over C. latifolia.[6] The most exhaustive work on Canna synonyms is that in the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP).[7]
List of species
The following list is based on the Taxonomic revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia, by Tanaka[4] and the proposal to conserve the name Canna tuerckheimii over C. latifolia.[6][7] As of March 2020[update], the
World Checklist of Selected Plant Families and
Plants of the World Online regard many of these as synonyms (most of Canna indica) but also recognise two further species, making 12 in total.[8]
^Cooke, Ian (2001) The Gardener's Guide to Growing Cannas
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Further reading
Chaté, E. - Le Canna, 1866.
Cooke, Ian (2001) The Gardener's Guide to Growing Cannas, Timber Press.
ISBN0-88192-513-6
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.
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.]