Anchomanes
Genus of flowering plants
Anchomanes is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. The genus is native to tropical Africa.
Anchomanes is quite similar to species in the genera Dracontium and Amorphophallus, but there are a few apparent differences. One such difference is that the roots are perennial. Also, the stalks are spiny and the tuberous rhizomes have eyes.
01Species
- Anchomanes abbreviatus Engl. - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
- Anchomanes boehmii Engl. - Kigoma region of western Tanzania
- Anchomanes dalzielii N.E.Br. - Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Anchomanes difformis (Blume) Engl. - much of tropical Africa from Liberia to Tanzania, south to Angola and Zambia
- Anchomanes giganteus Engl. - Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Zaire, Burundi
- Anchomanes nigritianus Rendle - Gabon, Nigeria
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