Summary ²

Culcasia scandens P.Beauv. is an African climbing plant, one of 28 species, often epiphytic, with slender, wiry stems, up to 5 m long clinging to tree trunks by means of clasping roots, and growing on forest and stream margins and savanna from Liberia, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and the Cameroun.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://data.rbge.org.uk/images/64826/700
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culcasia_scandens

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• African Plants - a photo guide
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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