Marcania

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|genus = Marcania

|parent_authority = J.B.Imlay (1939)

|species = grandiflora

|authority = J.B.Imlay (1939)

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Marcania is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.{{cite web |title=Marcania J.B.Imlay {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:732-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=17 May 2021 |language=en}} It only contains one known species, Marcania grandiflora J.B.Imlay{{cite web |title=Marcania grandiflora J.B.Imlay {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:52275-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=22 October 2021 |language=en}}

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.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}} The Latin specific epithet of grandiflora refers 2 two words, 'grandi' meaning large and 'flora' meaning flower.{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }}

Both the genus and species were first described and published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939 on page 136 in 1939.