Anchomanes


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 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.

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 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