Stylochaeton

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|image = Stylochaeton species DPR.png

|image_caption = Stylochaeton spp.Pohl in Das Pflanzenreich of Engler - "Das Pflanzenreich" Vol. 73-74 (1920)

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|parent_authority = Schott

|taxon = Stylochaeton

|authority = Lepr.

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|synonyms = Gueinzia Sond. ex Schott

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Stylochaeton is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae that is native to Africa.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=198347 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]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. Stylochaeton are rhizomatous with hastate leaves. Flowering in this genus is said to be quite uncommon.Bown, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. {{ISBN|0-88192-485-7}}. Stylochaeton is the sole genus in the tribe Stylochaetoneae. {{cite book |last1=Mayo |first1=Simon |last2=Bogner |first2=Justin |last3=Boyce |first3=Peter |title=The Genera of Araceae |date=January 1997 |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Kew |isbn=1-900347-22-9}}