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|accepted_name=Canna indica
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 1. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Indian-shot;platanillo
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Canna coccinea
|authority=Miller
|rank=species
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|name=Canna discolor
|authority=Lindley
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Canna edulis
|authority=Ker Gawler
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Canna lutea
|authority=Miller
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Canna warscewiczii
|authority=Dietrich
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cannaceae;Canna;Canna indica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cannaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Canna]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Canna indica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>fleshy. <b>Leaves</b>: sheath glabrous; blade narrowly ovate to ovate, 20–60 × 10–30 cm, base obtuse to narrowly cuneate, apex shortly acuminate to acute, abaxially and adaxially glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes, sometimes branched, bearing 1- to 2-flowered cincinni, 6–20 per inflorescence; primary bracts to 15 cm; secondary bracts to 9 cm; floral bracts persistent, broadly obovate to narrowly (ob)ovate(-triangular), 0.5–3 × 0.5–1.5 cm, apex entire, often glaucous; bracteoles (ovate-)triangular, 0.5–2 × 0.3–0.8 cm, apex entire. <b>Flowers</b> red to yellow-orange, never pure yellow (except in some hybrid cultivars), 4.5–7.5 cm; pedicels 0.2–1 cm, to 1.5 cm in fruit; sepals narrowly triangular, 0.9–1.7 × 0.2–0.5 cm; petals erect, 4–6.5 cm, tube 0.5–1.5 cm, lobes lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 3.5–5 × 0.4–0.7 cm; staminodes 3–4, narrowly obovate to spatulate, 4.5–7.5 cm, free part 0.3–0.5 cm wide, apex rounded, acute, or cleft; labellum reflexed, narrowly oblong, approximately equal to other staminodes. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid to nearly globose, 1.5–3 × 1.5–2 cm. <b>Seeds</b> black, globose to nearly globose, 5–8 × 4–6.7 mm diam. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering primarily spring–summer; fruiting summer–early fall.
|habitat=Often, if not always, in secondary growth and waste places
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Apparently Fla.;La.;S.C.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Canna indica</i> is probably native to neotropics and is now common throughout tropics and subtropics.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Canna indica
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Canna coccinea;Canna discolor;Canna edulis;Canna lutea;Canna warscewiczii
|basionyms=
|family=Cannaceae
|phenology=Flowering primarily spring–summer; fruiting summer–early fall.
|habitat=Often, if not always, in secondary growth and waste places
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Apparently Fla.;La.;S.C.;Tex.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Canna
|species=Canna indica
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