Monsteroideae
Monstera deliciosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Monsteroideae

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

  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

  1. Holochlamys - New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago
  2. 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
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