Culcasia

Culcasia
Culcasia striolata [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Alismatales
Family:	Araceae
Subfamily:	Aroideae
Tribe:	Culcasieae
Genus:	Culcasia P. Beauv., 1803 [2]
Synonyms [2]
DenhamiaSchott

Culcasia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical Africa. ^{[2] [3]} Most of its species are climbers and resemble Cercestis , except that they do not produce flagella. ^[4]

Species ^[2]

• Culcasia angolensis Welw. ex Schott - western + central Africa from Senegal to Angola
• Culcasia annetii Ntépé-Nyamè - Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Liberia
• Culcasia bosii Ntépé-Nyamè - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville
• Culcasia brevipetiolata Bogner - Gabon
• Culcasia caudata Engl. - Zaïre
• Culcasia dinklagei Engl - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
• Culcasia ekongoloi Ntépé-Nyamè - central Africa from Nigeria to Zaïre
• Culcasia falcifolia Engl. - central Africa from Gabon east to Tanzania and south to Mozambique
• Culcasia glandulosa Hepper - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo-Brazzaville
• Culcasia insulana N.E.Br. - Zaïre, Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Culcasia lanceolata Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon
• Culcasia liberica N.E.Br. - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo
• Culcasia linearifolia Bogner - Cameroon, Gabon
• Culcasia loukandensis Pellegr - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre, Central African Republic
• Culcasia mannii (Hook.f.) Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea
• Culcasia obliquifolia Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon
• Culcasia orientalis Mayo - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia
• Culcasia panduriformis Engl. & K.Krause - Cameroon, Gabon
• Culcasia parviflora N.E.Br. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
• Culcasia rotundifolia Bogner - Gabon
• Culcasia sanagensis Ntépé-Nyamè - Cameroon
• Culcasia scandens P.Beauv. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Angola
• Culcasia seretii De Wild - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
• Culcasia simiarum Ntépé-Nyamè - western Africa from Ivory Coast to Cameroon
• Culcasia striolata Engl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Congo-Brazzaville
• Culcasia tenuifolia Engl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
• Culcasia yangambiensis Louis & Mullend. - Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre

References

1. Adolf Engler - Book "Das Pflanzenreich" issued 1920
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.