Monstera Adans.
Distribution
Native to:
Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is.
Introduced into:
Ascension, Bangladesh, Comoros, Cook Is., Korea, Puerto Rico, Seychelles, Society Is.
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Serangium Wood ex Salisb. in Gen. Pl.: 5 (1866)
- Tornelia Gutierrez ex Schott in Gen. Aroid.: t. 74 (1858)
Accepted Species
- Monstera acacoyaguensis Matuda
- Monstera acuminata K.Koch
- Monstera adansonii Schott
- Monstera alcirana Croat, M.Cedeño, Zuluaga & O.Ortiz
- Monstera alfaroi Croat & M.Cedeño
- Monstera amargalensis Croat & M.M.Mora
- Monstera anomala Zuluaga & Croat
- Monstera aureopinnata Croat
- Monstera barrieri Croat, Moonen & Poncy
- Monstera boliviana Rusby
- Monstera buseyi Croat & Grayum
- Monstera cenepensis Croat
- Monstera costaricensis (Engl. & K.Krause) Croat & Grayum
- Monstera croatii M.Cedeño & A.Hay
- Monstera deliciosa Liebm.
- Monstera dissecta (Schott) Croat & Grayum
- Monstera dubia (Kunth) Engl. & K.Krause
- Monstera egregia Schott
- Monstera epipremnoides Engl.
- Monstera filamentosa Croat & Grayum
- Monstera florescanoana Croat, T.Krömer & Acebey
- Monstera gambensis M.Cedeño & M.A.Blanco
- Monstera gentryi Croat, M.Cedeño & O.Ortiz
- Monstera glaucescens Croat & Grayum
- Monstera gracilis Engl.
- Monstera guzmanjacobiae Diaz Jim., M.Cedeño, Zuluaga & Aguilar-Rodr.
- Monstera integrifolia Zuluaga & Croat
- Monstera juliusii M.Cedeño & Croat
- Monstera kessleri Croat
- Monstera kikiae Zuluaga & M.Cedeño
- Monstera lechleriana Schott
- Monstera lentii Croat & Grayum
- Monstera limitaris M.Cedeño
- Monstera luteynii Madison
- Monstera maderaverde Grayum & Karney
- Monstera membranacea Madison
- Monstera minima Madison
- Monstera mittermeieri M.Cedeño
- Monstera molinae Croat & Grayum
- Monstera momoi Zuluaga & M.Cedeño
- Monstera monteverdensis M.Cedeño & Croat
- Monstera obliqua Miq.
- Monstera oreophila Madison
- Monstera pinnatipartita Schott
- Monstera pittieri Engl.
- Monstera planadensis Croat
- Monstera praetermissa E.G.Gonç. & Temponi
- Monstera punctulata (Schott) Schott ex Engl.
- Monstera siltepecana Matuda
- Monstera spruceana (Schott) Engl.
- Monstera standleyana G.S.Bunting
- Monstera subpinnata (Schott) Engl.
- Monstera tacanaensis Matuda
- Monstera tarrazuensis Croat & M.Cedeño
- Monstera tenuis K.Koch
- Monstera tuberculata Lundell
- Monstera vasquezii Croat
- Monstera wilsoniensis M.Cedeño & Grayum
- Monstera xanthospatha Madison
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- 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.
CATE Araceae
- Mayo, S.J., Bogner, J. & Boyce, P.C. 1997. The genera of Araceae. 370 pp.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2008. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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CATE Araceae
- Haigh, A., Clark, B., Reynolds, L., Mayo, S.J., Croat, T.B., Lay, L., Boyce, P.C., Mora, M., Bogner, J., Sellaro, M., Wong, S.Y., Kostelac, C., Grayum, M.H., Keating, R.C., Ruckert, G., Naylor, M.F. and Hay, A., CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011.
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0