Culcasia angolensis Welw. ex Schott

Cite taxon page as 'WFO (2025): Culcasia angolensis Welw. ex Schott. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000933446. Accessed on: 04 Jun 2025'

Local Descriptions

Order descriptions by:

type
source

Morphology

Large climber up to 100 ft. high Masses of short internodal roots adhering to tree trunks Spathe pale green.

Provided by: [B].Flora of West Tropical Africa - species descriptions

Flora of West Tropical Africa - species descriptions

Morphology

Large climber up to 100 ft. high Masses of short internodal roots adhering to tree trunks Spathe pale green. Masses of short internodal roots adhering to tree trunks Spathe pale green.

Distribution Map

Native distribution

Found in

Africa South Tropical Africa Angola
West Tropical Africa Benin
Ghana
Guinea
Ivory Coast
Liberia
Sierra Leone
Togo
West-Central Tropical Africa Cameroon
Congo
Gabon
Gulf of Guinea Is.
Zaire

[C].The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP)

Synonyms

[A].Araceae

Bibliography

1 Araceae, F. N. Hepper. Flora of West Tropical Africa 3:1. 1968
2 "Morton, W. Afr. Lilies & Orch. 57."
3 Chev. Bot. 677
4 "Engl., Pflanzenr. 4, 23B: 300"
5 F.T.A. 8: 178
6 "in Seem., J. Bot. 3: 35 (1865)"
7 Friedrich Welwitsch (1806-1872)
8 Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794-1865)
9 IPNI record: 86758-1
10 J. Bot. 3: 35. 1865
11 Kew Gardens K000524460: Welw. [239] Angola
12 POWO record for urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:86758-1
13 The Plant List v1.1 record kew-52242
14 The Plant List version 1.0, record: kew-52242

Information From

Araceae

https://powo.science.kew.org/

World Flora Online Data. 2022.

A CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).

Flora of West Tropical Africa - species descriptions

World Flora Online Data. 2024.

B The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP)

https://www.kew.org/

The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; https://doi.org/10.34885/jdh2-dr22 Retrieved 28 September 2023.

World Flora Online consortium

http://www.worldfloraonline.org/organisation/WFO

World Flora Online Data. 2024.

E CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).

Classification

1 higher taxa

Plantae Haeckel
- Pteridobiotina Britton & Brown
  - Angiosperms
    - Alismatales R.Br. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
      - Araceae Juss.
        Culcasia P.Beauv.
        Culcasia angolensis Welw. ex Schott

[A].Araceae
[D].World Flora Online consortium
[E].World Flora Online consortium

Data

Habitat
Life Form
IUCN Red List Status

External Links

Taxon Name Source Link

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/ urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:86758-1

The World Flora Online

wfo-0000933446
Culcasia angolensis Welw. ex Schott
J. Bot. 3: 35 (1865)
This name is reported by Araceae as an accepted name in the genus Culcasia (family Araceae).
The record derives from WCSP (data supplied on 2024-07-26) which reports it as an accepted name (record 52242)