Callopsis Explained

Callopsis is a monotypic genus from the plant family Araceae and has only one species, Callopsis volkensii. This plant forms a creeping rhizome and has cordate-ovate leaves that are medium green and glabrous. The inflorescence is typical of the family Araceae, with a white spathe and yellow spadix. The spadix is shorter than the spathe and its male and female flowers are separated shortly.^{[1] [2]}

It grows at an altitude of 8000NaN0 in virgin forest in parts of eastern Africa (Kenya and Tanzania). There have been reports of the species in Cameroon, but these remain unconfirmed.^{[3] [4]}

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20110721145428/http://www.cate-araceae.org/taxonomy/Callopsis
• http://www.aroid.org/genera/generapage.php?genus=callopsis
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080430045028/http://scratchpad.cate-araceae.org/taxonomy/term/754

Notes and References

1. Simon J. Mayo, Josef Bogner, Peter C. Boyce: The Genera of Araceae. Royal Botanic Gardens/Kew Publishing, London 1997, (full-text as PDF-file; Continental Printing, Belgium 1997).
2. Flora of Tropical Africa, 'Aroideae', Brown, N.E., 1901, 8 (1):137–192
3. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=31727 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
4. 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.