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Genus: Stylochaeton

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  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).

 

Stylochaeton natalensis

Native to Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa (Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal). See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Stylochaeton puberulus

Native distribution in southern Africa includes Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa.

 

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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