Maranta

Accepted species 46 Documented here 4 Family Marantaceae

Accepted species 46 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Maranta arundinacea L. 30 documented
Maranta leuconeura É.Morren 12 documented
Maranta divaricata Roscoe 3 documented
Maranta gibba Sm. 3 documented
Maranta sobolifera L.Andersson 1 below the evidence gate
Maranta amazonica L.Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta amplifolia K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta anderssoniana Yosh.-Arns, Mayo & M.Alves 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta bahiensis N.Luna & E.M.Pessoa 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta bracteosa Petersen 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta burchellii K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta chrysogina N.Luna & M.Alves 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta cordata Körn. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta coriacea S.Vieira & V.C.Souza 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta cristata Nees & Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta cyclophylla K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta foliosa Körn. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta friedrichsthallana Körn. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta furcata Nees & Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta gigantea N.Luna & E.M.Pessoa 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta hatschbachiana Yosh.-Arns, Mayo & M.Alves 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta humilis Aubl. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta incrassata L.Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta lindmanii L.Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta linearis L.Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta longiflora S.Vieira & V.C.Souza 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta lorifolia N.Luna & M.Alves 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta nanica F.Fraga & J.M.A.Braga 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta noctiflora Regel & Körn. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta orbiculata K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta parvifolia Petersen 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta phrynioides Körn. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta pilosissima F.Fraga, L.J.T.Cardoso & J.M.A.Braga 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta pluriflora (Petersen) K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta pohliana Körn. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta polystachya (K.Schum.) J.M.A.Braga 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta protracta Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta pulchra S.Vieira & V.C.Souza 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta rugosa J.M.A.Braga & S.Vieira 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta ruiziana Körn. 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta rupicola L.Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta sophiana Yosh.-Arns, F.Fraga & J.M.A.Braga 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta tuberculata L.Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta vieirae N.Luna & E.M.Pessoa 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta villosovaginata N.Luna & E.M.Pessoa 0 below the evidence gate
Maranta zingiberina L.Andersson 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.