title: Marcania
text: # Marcania
  
  Marcania is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. It only contains one known species, Marcania grandiflora J.B.Imlay
  
  It is native to Thailand within Indo-China.
  
  The genus name of Marcania is in honour of Alexander Marcan (1883–1953), an English collector of plants in south-east Asia and Thailand. The Latin specific epithet of grandiflora refers 2 two words, 'grandi' meaning large and 'flora' meaning flower. Both the genus and species were first described and published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939 on page 136 in 1939.
  
  