Monsteroideae

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Monsteroideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the family Araceae.

Monsteroideae
Monstera deliciosa
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Monsteroideae

This subfamily is notable for having many trichosclereids in the vegetative and floral parts of the plants, but rarely in the roots.

Tribes and genera

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Monotypic tribes

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Monstereae

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  1. Alloschemone - Amazon region (Bolivia, Brazil)
  2. Amydrium - SE Asia
  3. Epipremnum - Himalayas, SE Asia to Australia
  4. Monstera – tropical Americas and common houseplants
  5. Rhaphidophora - tropical Africa, Asia to W. Pacific.
  6. Rhodospatha – tropical Americas
  7. Scindapsus - SE Asia, New Guinea, Queensland, W Pacific Islands
  8. Stenospermation - central and South America

Spathiphylleae

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  1. Holochlamys - New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago
  2. Spathiphyllum - tropical Americas, SE Asia including the Philippines and east of the Wallace line

References

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  • Bown, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family [ILLUSTRATED]. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7