Cercestis

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Cercestis
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Cercestis dinklagei [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Aroideae
Tribe: Culcasieae
Genus:Cercestis
Schott
Synonyms [2]
  • AlocasiophyllumEngl.
  • RhektophyllumN.E.Br

Cercestis is a genus of flowering plants in the Araceae family. The species in this genus are all climbers and are endemic to Africa. [2] [3] At intervals along the stem they produce long leafless shoots called flagella. Many of the species in Cersestis show signs of fenestration. [4]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Araceae family of plants

The Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe or leaf-like bract. Also known as the arum family, members are often colloquially known as aroids. This family of 114 genera and about 3750 known species is most diverse in the New World tropics, although also distributed in the Old World tropics and northern temperate regions.

Family is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy; it is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as being the "walnut family".

Species

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  1. Mesanthemum africanumMoldenke - Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  2. Mesanthemum albidumLecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone
  3. Mesanthemum angustitepalumKimp - Zaïre
  4. Mesanthemum auratumLecomte - Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau
  5. Mesanthemum bennaeJacq.-Fél - Guinea
  6. Mesanthemum cupricolaKimp - Zaïre
  7. Mesanthemum glabrumKimp - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia
  8. Mesanthemum jaegeriJacq.-Fél - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville
  9. Mesanthemum pilosumKimp - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia, Malawi
  10. Mesanthemum prescottianum(Bong.) Körn. - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon
  11. Mesanthemum pubescens(Lam.) Körn. - Madagascar
  12. Mesanthemum radicans(Benth.) Körn. - widespread from Liberia east to Tanzania, south to Mozambique
  13. Mesanthemum reductumH.E.Hess - Congo-Brazzaville, Angola
  14. Mesanthemum rutenbergianumKörn. - Madagascar
  15. Mesanthemum variabileKimp - Zaïre, Zambia
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Landolphia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1806. They take the form of vines that scramble over host trees. Landolphia is native to tropical Africa.

Orthopichonia is a genus of plants in the Apocynaceae family, first described as a genus in 1953. It was initially given the name Orthandra, but this turned out to be an illegitimate homonym. Orthopichonia is native to Africa.

References

  1. ↑ Adolf Engler - "Das Pflanzenreich" Vol. 48 issued 1911
  2. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  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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