Culcasia Explained

Culcasia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical Africa.^{[1] [2]} Most of its species are climbers and resemble Cercestis, except that they do not produce flagella.^[3]

Species^[1]

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

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=52241 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. Bown, Demi (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. .