''Stylochaeton'' is a
genus
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of flowering plants in the
family
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Araceae
The Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe (or leaf-like bract). Also ...
that is native to Africa.
[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
/ref> ''Stylochaeton'' are rhizomatous
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with hastate
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leaves. Flowering in this genus is said to be quite uncommon.[Bown, Deni (2000). ''Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family''. Timber Press. .] ''Stylochaeton'' is the sole genus in the tribe ''Stylochaetoneae''.
Species
# '' 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
External links
Aroideae
Araceae genera
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