| Scientific Name: | Maranta leuconeura |
| Common Name: | prayer plant, rabbit tracks, herringbone plant |
| Family Name: | Marantaceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 11: (above 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal, Pendulous |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Hanging basket, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Oblong, Obovate, Entire, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Purple, Mar |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Apr |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Trailing tropical plant; leaves alternate, broadly elliptic to oblong-obovate, most 12-14cm long x 7-8cm wide, squarish dark green patches with triangular notches arranged along the midrib or striking venation , margins entire and fold together with apex pointed upward at night as if in prayer. | |