Stylochaeton Explained

Stylochaeton is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae that is native to Africa.[1] [2] Stylochaeton are rhizomatous with hastate leaves. Flowering in this genus is said to be quite uncommon.[3] Stylochaeton is the sole genus in the tribe Stylochaetoneae. [4]

Species

  1. Stylochaeton angolense Engl. - Angola
  2. Stylochaeton bogneri Mayo - Kenya, Tanzania
  3. Stylochaeton borumense N.E.Br. - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia
  4. Stylochaeton crassispathum Bogner - Tanzania
  5. Stylochaeton cuculliferum Peter - Zaïre, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi
  6. Stylochaeton euryphyllum Mildbr. - Tanzania, Mozambique
  7. Stylochaeton grande N.E.Br. - Somalia
  8. Stylochaeton hypogeum Lepr. - Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Senegal, Nigeria, Chad, Ethiopia, Sudan
  9. Stylochaeton kornasii Malaisse & Bamps - Zaïre
  10. Stylochaeton lancifolium Kotschy & Peyr. - Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Sudan
  11. Stylochaeton malaissei Bogner - Zaïre
  12. Stylochaeton milneanum Mayo - Tanzania
  13. Stylochaeton natalense Schott - Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, northern South Africa
  14. Stylochaeton oligocarpum Riedl. - Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia
  15. Stylochaeton pilosum Bogner - Sierra Leone
  16. Stylochaeton puberulum N.E.Br. - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  17. Stylochaeton salaamicum N.E.Br. - Kenya, Tanzania
  18. Stylochaeton shabaense Malaisse & Bamps - Zaïre
  19. Stylochaeton tortispathum Bogner & Haigh - Mozambique
  20. Stylochaeton zenkeri Engl - Zaïre, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Sierra Leone

Notes and References

  1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=198347 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, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. .
  4. Book: Mayo . Simon . Bogner . Justin . Boyce . Peter . The Genera of Araceae . January 1997 . Royal Botanic Gardens Kew . 1-900347-22-9.

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