Montrichardia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Alismatales

Familia: Araceae
Subfamilia: Aroideae
Tribus: Montrichardieae
Genus: Montrichardia
Species: M. arborescens – M. linifera
Name

Montrichardia Crueg., 1854

Type Species: Caladium aculeatum G. Mey.

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Pleurospa Raf., Fl. Tellur. 4: 8 (1838), nom. rej.

References

Crueger, H., 1854. Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 12: 25

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Montrichardia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Nov. 05. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Montrichardia. Published online. Accessed: Nov. 05 2018.
The Plant List 2013. Montrichardia in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Nov. 05.
Tropicos.org 2018. Montrichardia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 05 Nov. 2018.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Montrichardia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 08-Apr-12.

Vernacular names

Montrichardia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. It contains two species, Montrichardia arborescens and Montrichardia linifera, and one extinct species Montrichardia aquatica.[1][2] The genus is helophytic and distributed in tropical America (West Indies, Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad, Tobago, and Venezuela). The extinct species M. aquatica is known from fossils found in a Neotropical rainforest environment preserved in the Paleocene Cerrejón Formation of Colombia.[2] Living Montrichardia species have a diploid chromosome number of 2n=48.[3]
Species

†Montrichardia aquatica Herrera - Colombia in Paleocene
Montrichardia arborescens (L.) Schott - West Indies, Belize, northwestern Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad, Tobago, Venezuela
Montrichardia linifera (Arruda) Schott - northern and eastern Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the Guianas

References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Herrera, F.A.; Jaramillo, C.A.; Dilcher, D.L.; Wing, S.L.; Gómez-N, C. (2007). "Fossil Araceae from a Paleocene neotropical rainforest in Colombia" (PDF). American Journal of Botany. 95 (12): 1569–1583. doi:10.3732/ajb.0800172. PMID 21628164. S2CID 207654872.
Bown, Demi (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7.