Stylochaeton is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae that is native to Africa.[2][3] Stylochaeton are rhizomatous with hastate leaves. Flowering in this genus is said to be quite uncommon.[4] Stylochaeton is the sole genus in the tribe Stylochaetoneae. [5]
| Stylochaeton | |
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| Stylochaeton spp.[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Araceae |
| Subfamily: | Aroideae |
| Tribe: | Stylochaetoneae Schott |
| Genus: | Stylochaeton Lepr. |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Gueinzia Sond. ex Schott | |
Species
edit- Stylochaeton angolense Engl. - Angola
- Stylochaeton bogneri Mayo - Kenya, Tanzania
- Stylochaeton borumense N.E.Br. - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia
- Stylochaeton crassispathum Bogner - Tanzania
- Stylochaeton cuculliferum Peter - Zaïre, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi
- Stylochaeton euryphyllum Mildbr. - Tanzania, Mozambique
- Stylochaeton grande N.E.Br. - Somalia
- Stylochaeton hypogeum Lepr. - Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Senegal, Nigeria, Chad, Ethiopia, Sudan
- Stylochaeton kornasii Malaisse & Bamps - Zaïre
- Stylochaeton lancifolium Kotschy & Peyr. - Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Sudan
- Stylochaeton malaissei Bogner - Zaïre
- Stylochaeton milneanum Mayo - Tanzania
- Stylochaeton natalense Schott - Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, northern South Africa
- Stylochaeton oligocarpum Riedl. - Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia
- Stylochaeton pilosum Bogner - Sierra Leone
- Stylochaeton puberulum N.E.Br. - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Stylochaeton salaamicum N.E.Br. - Kenya, Tanzania
- Stylochaeton shabaense Malaisse & Bamps - Zaïre
- Stylochaeton tortispathum Bogner & Haigh - Mozambique
- Stylochaeton zenkeri Engl - Zaïre, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Sierra Leone
References
edit- ^ Pohl in Das Pflanzenreich of Engler - "Das Pflanzenreich" Vol. 73-74 (1920)
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bown, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7.
- ^ Mayo, Simon; Bogner, Justin; Boyce, Peter (January 1997). The Genera of Araceae. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. ISBN 1-900347-22-9.
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