Maranta arundinacea L.
Engl.: arrowroot, Bermuda arrowroot, East Indian arrowroot, Indian arrowroot, maranta, maranta arrowroot, West Indian arrowroot.
Deu.: Pfeilwurz.
Span.: shimipampana.
Port.: araruta.
Bot. syn.: Maranta indica Tussac, Maranta ramosissima Wall.

Pre-Linnaean:
Maranta. (Hort. cliff. 2, Roy. lugdb. 11.) (Linnaeus Species Plantarum 1753),
Maranta arundinacea, cannacori folio. (Plum. gen. 16., Mart. cent. 39.) (Linnaeus Species Plantarum 1753) .

Maranta arundinacea Blanco, Marantaceae: See Donax arundastrum Lour.