Araceae
Amorphophallus
Amorphophallus abyssinicus

Amorphophallus abyssinicus subsp. abyssinicus

This subspecies is accepted
The native range of this subspecies is Tropical Africa. It is a tuberous geophyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Doubtfully present in:

Somalia

Native to:

Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaïre

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • 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.
  • Ittenbach, S. (2003). Revision der afrikanischen Arten de Gattung Amorphophallus (Araceae). Englera 25: 1-263.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
  • Thiombiano, A., Schmidt, M., Dressler, S., Ouédraogo, A., Hahn, K. & Zizka, G. (2012). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Burkina Faso. Boissiera 65: 1-391.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Feb 5, 1996 s.coll. [s.n.] K000499388 Yes
Feb 5, 1996 Hepper, F.N. [4118] Central African Republic K000499389 Yes
Nov 12, 1995 Dalziel, J.M. [237] Nigeria K000345943 Unknown Type Material Yes
Nov 12, 1995 Chevalier, A. [8547] Central African Republic K000345960 Type Yes
Nov 12, 1995 Warnecke [10 K000345941 Type No
Nov 12, 1995 Foster, E.W. [21] Nigeria K000345942 Unknown Type Material Yes
Nov 12, 1995 Barter [502] Nigeria K000345944 Holotype Yes
Nov 12, 1995 Schweinfurth, G. [1806] Sudan K000345964 Type Yes
Nov 12, 1995 Schweinfurth, G. [1806] Sudan K000345965 Type Yes
Congo, Democratic Republic of the Amorphophallus schweinfurthii K:SPC-22209.000 No

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0