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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Monstera

Hierarchical position of the Genus Monstera

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Aridae Takht. pub. 1997       SuperOrdo  Aranae Thorne ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 235. 1992.       Ordo  Arales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 65. 1829.       Familia  Araceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 23. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Arums       Subfamilia  Monsteroideae (Schott) Engl. pub. Nova Acta Acad. Leopold-Carol. 39: 142. 1876.       Tribus  Monstereae (Schott) Engl. pub. Nova Acta Acad. Leopold-Carol. 39: 143. 1876.       Subtribus  Monsterinae Schott pub. Prodr. Syst. Aroid.: 346. 1 Mai-15 Aug 1860.       Genus  Monstera Adans. pub. (1763) common name: monstera

Named members of the Genus Monstera

1	Species  adansonii Schott common name: Adanson's monstera
2	Species  deliciosa Liebm. common name: tarovine, monstera
3	Species  pertusa (L.) de Vriese syn. Monstera adansonii

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.