Stylochaeton

Stylochaeton
Stylochaeton spp.[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Aroideae
Tribe: Stylochaetoneae
Genus: Stylochaeton
Lepr.
Synonyms[2]

Gueinzia Sond. ex Schott

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

Species[2]
  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, Swaziland, 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

References

  1. ↑ Pohl in Das Pflanzenreich of Engler - "Das Pflanzenreich" Vol. 73-74 (1920)
  2. 1 2 3 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, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7.
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