Clinogyne dichotoma.
Botanical name:
Clinogyne dichotoma Salisb. Scitamineae. Maranta
East Indies and Malays. The maranta is cultivated in the East Indies for arrowroot.
Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.
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