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Callopsis volkensii is the only species in its genus, a rhizomatous aroid from dry forest and shrubland in southeastern Kenya and eastern Tanzania. It is rarely cultivated, so care advice is limited and based on general aroid growing practice.
Callopsis is a monotypic genus from the plant family Araceae and has only one species, Callopsis volkensii.
It grows at an altitude of 800 m (2,625 ft) in virgin forest in parts of eastern Africa (Kenya and Tanzania). There have been reports of the species in Cameroon, but these remain unconfirmed.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Callopsis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
