Montrichardia

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Montrichardia
Temporal range: Paleocene to Recent 60–0 Ma
Montrichardia arborescens - plant - Suriname.jpg
Montrichardia arborescens
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Aroideae
Tribe: Montrichardieae
Genus: Montrichardia
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Species
Synonyms[1]

Pleurospa Raf.

Montrichardia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. It contains two species, Montrichardia arborescens and , 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]

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References[]

  1. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ Bown, Demi (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7.


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