Editing Maranta arundinacea (section)

==Distribution==
''Maranta arundinacea'' is native to Mexico, Central America, the West Indies ([[Cuba]], [[Hispaniola]], [[Puerto Rico]], and most of the [[Lesser Antilles]]) and South America (in Brazil, [[Peru]], [[Ecuador]], [[Colombia]], [[Venezuela]], [[Suriname]], [[Guyana]], and [[French Guiana]]).<ref name="GRIN" /> It is widely cultivated in many warm countries and is considered naturalized in [[The Bahamas]], [[Bermuda]], [[Cambodia]], China ([[Guangdong]], [[Guangxi]], [[Hainan]], [[Yunnan]]), the [[Cook Islands]], [[Equatorial Guinea]], [[Gabon]], India, Indonesia, [[Jamaica]], Japan (in the [[Volcano Islands]]), [[Mauritius]], the [[Netherlands Antilles]], [[Réunion]], [[Samoa]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[Taiwan]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Tonga]], the United States ([[Florida]]), the Philippines and [[Vanuatu]].<ref name=POWO/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200028493|title=Flora of China v 24, p 382, ''Maranta arundinacea''|access-date=25 December 2012|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304082501/http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200028493|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Caribbean island nation of [[St. Vincent and the Grenadines]] is the world's largest grower of arrowroot and producer of arrowroot flour.<ref>"Root Crops"</ref> 
In [[Kerala]], India, arrowroot, locally called ബിലാത്തി കൂവ (Bilathi Kūva), is cultivated to produce an easily digestible starch.,<ref>"Koova (arrowroot), http://papanasini.blogspot.com/2014/01/koova.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315073601/http://papanasini.blogspot.com/2014/01/koova.html |date=15 March 2016 }}, accessed 21 February 2016</ref> while in [[Odisha]], India, it's called ପାଳୁଅ (Paḷua).