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Filed as Culcasia falcifolia Engl. [family ARACEAE]

Collector Hemp,A., #1038

Collection Date 1996-03-13

Resource Type Specimens

Country Tanzania

Herbarium UBT

Identifications Culcasia falcifolia Engl. [family ARACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Hemp, A.

Holotype of Culcasia falcifolia Engl. [family ARACEAE]

Collector Stuhlmann, #8817

Collection Date 18-10-1894

Resource Type Specimens

Country Tanzania

Herbarium B

Identifications Holotype of Culcasia falcifolia Engl. [family ARACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Mayo, S. ?

CULCASIA falcifolia Engl. [family ARACEAE]

Entry From Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 137, (1902) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)

Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Resource Type Reference Sources

Information Stem climbing; internodes 3/4–1 1/4 in. long. Leaves subcoriaceous; petioles long-sheathed, 4 in. long; blade 8–10 in. long, 2 in. broad, obliquely lanceolate, slightly falcate, curved at the apex, very unequal-sided, one side being twice as broad as the other; primary lateral nerves making a very acute angle with the midrib, ascending, slightly prominent in the dried state. Peduncle about 4 in. long. Spathe 1 3/4 in long, 3/4 in. broad, oblong, long-acuminate, orange. Spadix a little shorter than the spathe; female part 2 1/2 lin. long. Male part nearly 1 1/4 in. long. Ovary sub-hemispherical; stigma sessile, broad, deeply excavated.