Culcasia

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Culcasia
Engler Colocasia.png
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Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Aroideae
Tribe:
Genus: Culcasia
P. Beauv., 1803[1]
Synonyms[1]

Denhamia Schott

Culcasia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical Africa.[1][3] Most of its species are climbers and resemble Cercestis except for the fact that they don't produce flagella.[4]

Species[1]
  1. Welw. ex Schott - western + central Africa from Senegal to Angola
  2. Ntépé-Nyamè - Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Liberia
  3. Ntépé-Nyamè - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville
  4. Bogner - Gabon
  5. Engl. - Zaïre
  6. Engl - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
  7. Ntépé-Nyamè - central Africa from Nigeria to Zaïre
  8. Engl. - central Africa from Gabon east to Tanzania and south to Mozambique
  9. Hepper - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo-Brazzaville
  10. N.E.Br. - Zaïre, Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea Islands
  11. Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon
  12. N.E.Br. - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo
  13. Bogner - Cameroon, Gabon
  14. Pellegr - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre, Central African Republic
  15. (Hook.f.) Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea
  16. Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon
  17. Mayo - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia
  18. Engl. & K.Krause - Cameroon, Gabon
  19. N.E.Br. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
  20. Bogner - Gabon
  21. Ntépé-Nyamè - Cameroon
  22. Culcasia scandens P.Beauv. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Angola
  23. De Wild - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
  24. Ntépé-Nyamè - western Africa from Ivory Coast to Cameroon
  25. Engl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Congo-Brazzaville
  26. Engl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
  27. Louis & Mullend. - Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Adolf Engler - Book "Das Pflanzenreich" issued 1920
  3. ^ Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  4. ^ Bown, Demi (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7.


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