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Genus: Stylochaeton
Life
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> Monocotyledons > Order: Alismatales
> Family: Araceae
About 15 species, native to tropical and southern subtropical
Africa, with three species native to southern Africa.
Species native to southern Africa
Information from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI),
Flora of
Zimbabwe,
Flora of Mozambique and
African Flowering Plants Database.
Stylochaeton borumensis
Recorded in
Flora of Mozambique. Not sure whether it has been recorded from southern
Mozambique (south of Zambezi River). |
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Stylochaeton natalensis
Native to Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa (Limpopo,
Mpumalanga, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal). See
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Stylochaeton puberulus
Native distribution in southern Africa includes Zimbabwe, Mozambique and
South Africa. |
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Publications
- Mayo, S.J. 1985. Araceae. Flora of Tropical
East Africa: 1-71.
- Mayo, S.J., Bogner, J. & Boyce, P.C. 1997.
The Genera of Araceae. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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