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
 * 1) Culcasia angolensis Welw. ex Schott - western + central Africa from Senegal to Angola
 * 2) Culcasia annetii Ntépé-Nyamè - Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Liberia
 * 3) Culcasia bosii Ntépé-Nyamè - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville
 * 4) Culcasia brevipetiolata Bogner - Gabon
 * 5) Culcasia caudata Engl. - Zaïre
 * 6) Culcasia dinklagei Engl - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
 * 7) Culcasia ekongoloi Ntépé-Nyamè - central Africa from Nigeria to Zaïre
 * 8) Culcasia falcifolia Engl. - central Africa from Gabon east to Tanzania and south to Mozambique
 * 9) Culcasia glandulosa Hepper - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo-Brazzaville
 * 10) Culcasia insulana N.E.Br. - Zaïre, Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea Islands
 * 11) Culcasia lanceolata Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon
 * 12) Culcasia liberica N.E.Br. - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo
 * 13) Culcasia linearifolia Bogner - Cameroon, Gabon
 * 14) Culcasia loukandensis Pellegr - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre, Central African Republic
 * 15) Culcasia mannii (Hook.f.) Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea
 * 16) Culcasia obliquifolia Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon
 * 17) Culcasia orientalis Mayo - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia
 * 18) Culcasia panduriformis Engl. & K.Krause - Cameroon, Gabon
 * 19) Culcasia parviflora N.E.Br. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
 * 20) Culcasia rotundifolia Bogner - Gabon
 * 21) Culcasia sanagensis Ntépé-Nyamè - Cameroon
 * 22) Culcasia scandens P.Beauv. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Angola
 * 23) Culcasia seretii De Wild - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
 * 24) Culcasia simiarum Ntépé-Nyamè - western Africa from Ivory Coast to Cameroon
 * 25) Culcasia striolata Engl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Congo-Brazzaville
 * 26) Culcasia tenuifolia Engl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
 * 27) Culcasia yangambiensis Louis & Mullend. - Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre