title: Hypselodelphys
text: # Hypselodelphys
  
  Hypselodelphys is a group of plants in the Marantaceae described as a genus in 1950. native to tropical Africa from Liberia to Uganda and south to Angola. It contains 8 recognized species:
  
  ## species
  
  * Hypselodelphys hirsuta – Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea
  * Hypselodelphys lopei – Gabon
  * Hypselodelphys poggeana – tropical Africa from Liberia to Angola
  * Hypselodelphys scandens – Central Africa from Nigeria to Uganda and Angola
  * Hypselodelphys triangularis – Liberia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo
  * Hypselodelphys velutina – Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast
  * Hypselodelphys violacea – tropical Africa from Liberia to Angola
  * Hypselodelphys zenkeriana – Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  