Thaumatococcus is a genus of tropical flowering plants in the arrowroot family, Marantaceae, thought for many years to contain a single species from western Africa: Thaumatococcus daniellii.Bentham, George & Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1883. Genera Plantarum 3: 652, Thaumatococcus daniellii A second species, however, was described in 2012: Thaumatococcus flavus, native to Gabon in central Africa.Ley, Alexandra C. 2012. Adansonia, série 3, 34(1): 44, figs. 1, 6, Thaumatococcus flavus
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