Monstera
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Araceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Robust or slender vines, climbing by means of adventitious roots; stems smooth or verrucose, elongate. Leaves alternate; blades simple, entire or laciniate, usually perforated; petioles usually elongate and winged. Spathe very thick, convolute, enclosing the spadix, deciduous; spadix cylindrical, thick, erect. Flowers bisexual, lacking a perianth; stamens 4; pistil prismatic, truncate at the apex, the ovary bilocular, with two basal ovules in each locule, the stigma punctate or linear. Berries fleshy, green, white, yellow, or orange. Seed usually one, ovoid or cylindrical. A genus of 22 species, native to tropical continental America and the Lesser Antilles.