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Subfamily of flowering plants
Monsteroideae is a
subfamily of flowering plants in the
family
Araceae.
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
Monotypic tribes
Monstereae
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Alloschemone - Amazon region (Bolivia, Brazil)
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Amydrium - SE Asia
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Epipremnum - Himalayas, SE Asia to Australia
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Monstera – tropical
Americas and common houseplants
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Rhaphidophora - tropical Africa, Asia to W. Pacific.
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Rhodospatha – tropical
Americas
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Scindapsus - SE Asia, New Guinea, Queensland, W
Pacific Islands
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Stenospermation - central and
South America
Spathiphylleae
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Holochlamys -
New Guinea,
Bismarck Archipelago
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Spathiphyllum - tropical
Americas, SE Asia including the Philippines and east of the
Wallace line
References
- Bown, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family [ILLUSTRATED]. Timber Press.
ISBN
0-88192-485-7