690.000 Culcasia P. Beauv.

Description of the genus

Climbing or creeping perennial herbs, rooting at nodes. Leaf lamina entire, not hastate, usually with pellucid glands. Inflorescences numerous, subtended by a bract. Spathe erect; spadix with male flowers above and female below. Flowers unisexual. Berries usually red. Seeds with abundant endosperm.

Worldwide: 20 species in tropical Africa, mostly in the rainforests of W and C Africa

Zambia: 2 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Provinces	Content
falcifolia Engl.	N,W	Nw,Lp	Description, Image
orientalis Mayo	N	N

Other sources of information about Culcasia:

Our websites:

Flora of Burundi: Culcasia
Flora of Malawi: Culcasia
Flora of Mozambique: Culcasia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Culcasia

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Culcasia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Culcasia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Culcasia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Culcasia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Culcasia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Culcasia
JSTOR Plant Science: Culcasia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Culcasia
Plants of the World Online: Culcasia
Tropicos: Culcasia
Wikipedia: Culcasia

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Culcasia.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=298, retrieved 21 November 2024

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