Montrichardia
| Montrichardia Temporal range: Paleocene to Recent 60–0 Ma | |
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| M. arborescens | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Araceae |
| Subfamily: | Aroideae |
| Genus: | Montrichardia Crueg. |
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Pleurospa Raf. | |
Montrichardia is a genus of flowering plants in the Araceae family. It contains two species, Montrichardia arborescens and Montrichardia linifera, 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 chromosome number of 2n=48.[3]
Species
- †Montrichardia aquatica Herrera - Colombia in Paleocene
- Montrichardia arborescens (L.) Schott - West Indies, Belize, northwestern Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad, Tobago, Venezuela
- Montrichardia linifera (Arruda) Schott - northern and eastern Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the Guianas
References
- 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- 1 2 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". American Journal of Botany 95: 1569–1583. doi:10.3732/ajb.0800172. PMID 21628164.
- ↑ Bown, Demi (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7.
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