Culcasia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical 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. Most of its species are climbers and resemble Cercestis, except that they do not produce flagella.Bown, Demi (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. .
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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