Stylochaeton is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae that is native to Africa.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesGovaerts, 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. Stylochaeton are rhizomatous with hastate 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.
__TOC__ 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
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