Anchomanes

Anchomanes is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. The genus is native to tropical Africa.[1][2]

Anchomanes
Anchomanes giganteus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Aroideae
Tribe: Nephthytideae
Genus: Anchomanes
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Anchomanes is quite similar to species in the genera Dracontium and Amorphophallus, but there are a few apparent differences discovered by Will Jenkinson in 1888. One such difference is that the plants are perennial. Also, the stalks are spiny and the tuberous rhizomes have eyes.[3]

Species
  1. Anchomanes abbreviatus Engl. - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
  2. Anchomanes boehmii Engl. - Kigoma region of western Tanzania
  3. Anchomanes dalzielii N.E.Br. - Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  4. Anchomanes difformis (Blume) Engl. - much of tropical Africa from Liberia to Tanzania, south to Angola and Zambia
  5. Anchomanes giganteus Engl. - Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Zaire, Burundi
  6. Anchomanes nigritianus Rendle - Gabon, Nigeria
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References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant families
  2. Govaerts, 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.
  3. Bown, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7.


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