Cyrtosperma

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Cyrtosperma
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Lasioideae
Genus: Cyrtosperma
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Synonyms [1]

ArisacontisSchott

Cyrtosperma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. The genus went through considerable taxonomic changes in the 1980s, and as a result is now considered to be native only to Southeast Asia and some Pacific islands. [1] [2] Previously, the genus was believed to be widespread from Asia to Africa and South America, but the African and South American species were subsequently moved into separate genera. Cyrtosperma is now known to be most prominent in New Guinea. The genus Cyrtosperma is unique in this regard because it is the only known big genus in Araceae that is known to be found east of Wallace's line. [3] [4]

Cyrtosperma merkusii , or pulaka, is grown as a root crop in Oceania.

Species
  1. Cyrtosperma beccarianum A.Hay - New Guinea
  2. Cyrtosperma bougainvillense A.Hay - Solomon Islands
  3. Cyrtosperma brassii A.Hay - Louisiade Archipelago
  4. Cyrtosperma carrii A.Hay - Papua New Guinea
  5. Cyrtosperma cuspidispathum Alderw. - New Guinea
  6. Cyrtosperma giganteum Engl. - New Guinea
  7. Cyrtosperma gressittiorum A.Hay - Louisiade Archipelago
  8. Cyrtosperma hambalii A.Dearden & A.Hay - Western New Guinea
  9. Cyrtosperma johnstonii (N.E.Br.) N.E.Br. - Solomon Islands
  10. Cyrtosperma kokodense A.Hay - Papua New Guinea
  11. Cyrtosperma macrotum Becc. ex Engl. - New Guinea
  12. Cyrtosperma merkusii (Hassk.) Schott - New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Philippines, Fiji, Samoa, Kiribati, Santa Cruz Islands, Cook Islands, Marquesas, Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands; naturalized on various other islands

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  1. Piptospatha burbidgei(N.E.Br.) M.Hotta - Sarawak, Sabah
  2. Piptospatha elongata(Engl.) N.E.Br. - Kalimantan Barat
  3. Piptospatha impolitaS.Y.Wong, P.C.Boyce & Bogner - Sarawak
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  5. Piptospatha manduensisBogner & A.Hay - Kalimantan Timur
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  1. Culcasia angolensisWelw. ex Schott - western + central Africa from Senegal to Angola
  2. Culcasia annetiiNtépé-Nyamè - Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Liberia
  3. Culcasia bosiiNtépé-Nyamè - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville
  4. Culcasia brevipetiolataBogner - Gabon
  5. Culcasia caudataEngl. - Zaïre
  6. Culcasia dinklageiEngl - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
  7. Culcasia ekongoloiNtépé-Nyamè - central Africa from Nigeria to Zaïre
  8. Culcasia falcifoliaEngl. - central Africa from Gabon east to Tanzania and south to Mozambique
  9. Culcasia glandulosaHepper - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo-Brazzaville
  10. Culcasia insulanaN.E.Br. - Zaïre, Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea Islands
  11. Culcasia lanceolataEngl. - Cameroon, Gabon
  12. Culcasia libericaN.E.Br. - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo
  13. Culcasia linearifoliaBogner - Cameroon, Gabon
  14. Culcasia loukandensisPellegr - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre, Central African Republic
  15. Culcasia mannii(Hook.f.) Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea
  16. Culcasia obliquifoliaEngl. - Cameroon, Gabon
  17. Culcasia orientalisMayo - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia
  18. Culcasia panduriformisEngl. & K.Krause - Cameroon, Gabon
  19. Culcasia parvifloraN.E.Br. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
  20. Culcasia rotundifoliaBogner - Gabon
  21. Culcasia sanagensisNtépé-Nyamè - Cameroon
  22. Culcasia scandensP.Beauv. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Angola
  23. Culcasia seretiiDe Wild - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
  24. Culcasia simiarumNtépé-Nyamè - western Africa from Ivory Coast to Cameroon
  25. Culcasia striolataEngl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Congo-Brazzaville
  26. Culcasia tenuifoliaEngl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
  27. Culcasia yangambiensisLouis & Mullend. - Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre
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References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Brown, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN   0-88192-485-7.
  4. ↑ Hay, A. (1988). Cyrtosperma (Araceae) and its Old World allies. Blumea 33: 427-469.
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