Mapania caudata

Short description: Species of grass-like plant

Mapania caudata

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Monocots
Clade:  | Commelinids
Order:  | Poales
Family:  | Cyperaceae
Genus:  | Mapania
Species:  |

M. caudata

Binomial name
Mapania caudata

Kük.[1]

Synonyms[2]

Mapania petiolata var. pumila Uittien
Mapania cuspidata var. pumila (Uittien) Uittien

Mapania caudata is a species of plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae.[2] It is found throughout the Peninsular Malaysia, but particularly on the east side. Its natural habitat is shady, moist microclimates in tropical understory. Like several other shady understory plant species, its leaves display blue iridescence. The mechanism was described as resulting from silica nanoparticles in microfibrillar layers stacked into helicoidal structures, appearing on the adaxial epidermal surface, with the iridescence from cell surfaces being left-circularly polarized.[3]

## References

1. ↑ Kükenthal, G. (1931). Fedde, Friedrich. ed. "Cyperaceae novae vel minus cognitae. X.". Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 29 (11–20): 187–202 [201]. doi:10.1002/fedr.19310291106. https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/records/item/14738-repertorium-specierum-novarum-regni-vegetabilis-fasciculus-xxix-1931.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". https://wcsp.science.kew.org/namedetail.do?name_id=253075.
3. ↑ Strout, Greg; Russell, Scott D.; Pulsifer, Drew P.; Erten, Sema; Lakhtakia, Akhlesh; Lee, David W. (October 2013). "Silica nanoparticles aid in structural leaf coloration in the Malaysian tropical rainforest understorey herb Mapania caudata" (in en). Annals of Botany 112 (6): 1141–1148. doi:10.1093/aob/mct172. ISSN 1095-8290. PMID 23960046.

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