Culcasia

Culcasia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical Africa. Most of its species are climbers and resemble Cercestis, except that they do not produce flagella. Species Culcasia angolensis Welw. ex Schott - western + central Africa from Senegal to Angola Culcasia annetii Ntépé-Nyamè - Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Liberia Culcasia bosii Ntépé-Nyamè - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville Culcasia brevipetiolata Bogner - Gabon Culcasia caudata Engl. - Zaïre Culcasia dinklagei Engl - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre Culcasia ekongoloi Ntépé-Nyamè - central Africa from Nigeria to Zaïre Culcasia falcifolia Engl. - central Africa from Gabon east to Tanzania and south to Mozambique Culcasia glandulosa Hepper - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo-Brazzaville Culcasia insulana N.E.Br. - Zaïre, Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea Islands Culcasia lanceolata Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon Culcasia liberica N.E.Br. - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo Culcasia linearifolia Bogner - Cameroon, Gabon Culcasia loukandensis Pellegr - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre, Central African Republic Culcasia mannii (Hook.f.) Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea Culcasia obliquifolia Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon Culcasia orientalis Mayo - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia Culcasia panduriformis Engl. & K.Krause - Cameroon, Gabon Culcasia parviflora N.E.Br. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre Culcasia rotundifolia Bogner - Gabon Culcasia sanagensis Ntépé-Nyamè - Cameroon Culcasia scandens P.Beauv. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Angola Culcasia seretii De Wild - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre Culcasia simiarum Ntépé-Nyamè - western Africa from Ivory Coast to Cameroon Culcasia striolata Engl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Congo-Brazzaville Culcasia tenuifolia Engl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre Culcasia yangambiensis Louis & Mullend. - Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre

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