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Genus of flowering plants

Culcasia
Culcasia striolata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Aroideae
Tribe: Culcasieae
Genus: Culcasia
P. Beauv., 1803
Synonyms

Denhamia Schott

Culcasia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical Africa. Most of its species are climbers and resemble Cercestis, except that they do not produce flagella.

Species
  1. Culcasia angolensis Welw. ex Schott - western + central Africa from Senegal to Angola
  2. Culcasia annetii Ntépé-Nyamè - Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Liberia
  3. Culcasia bosii Ntépé-Nyamè - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville
  4. Culcasia brevipetiolata Bogner - Gabon
  5. Culcasia caudata Engl. - Zaïre
  6. Culcasia dinklagei Engl - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
  7. Culcasia ekongoloi Ntépé-Nyamè - central Africa from Nigeria to Zaïre
  8. Culcasia falcifolia Engl. - central Africa from Gabon east to Tanzania and south to Mozambique
  9. Culcasia glandulosa Hepper - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo-Brazzaville
  10. Culcasia insulana N.E.Br. - Zaïre, Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea Islands
  11. Culcasia lanceolata Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon
  12. Culcasia liberica N.E.Br. - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo
  13. Culcasia linearifolia Bogner - Cameroon, Gabon
  14. Culcasia loukandensis Pellegr - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre, Central African Republic
  15. Culcasia mannii (Hook.f.) Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea
  16. Culcasia obliquifolia Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon
  17. Culcasia orientalis Mayo - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia
  18. Culcasia panduriformis Engl. & K.Krause - Cameroon, Gabon
  19. Culcasia parviflora N.E.Br. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
  20. Culcasia rotundifolia Bogner - Gabon
  21. Culcasia sanagensis Ntépé-Nyamè - Cameroon
  22. Culcasia scandens P.Beauv. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Angola
  23. Culcasia seretii De Wild - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
  24. Culcasia simiarum Ntépé-Nyamè - western Africa from Ivory Coast to Cameroon
  25. Culcasia striolata Engl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Congo-Brazzaville
  26. Culcasia tenuifolia Engl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
  27. Culcasia yangambiensis Louis & Mullend. - Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre

References

  1. ^ 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.
Taxon identifiers
Culcasia


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