Montrichardia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. 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 diploid chromosome number of 2n=48.[3]
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| Montrichardia arborescens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Araceae |
| Subfamily: | Aroideae |
| Tribe: | Montrichardieae |
| Genus: | Montrichardia Crueg. |
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Pleurospa Raf. | |
Species
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Montrichardia arborescens (L.) Schott | yautia madera, or moco-moco | West Indies, Belize, northwestern Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad, Tobago, Venezuela |
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Montrichardia linifera (Arruda) Schott | aninga | northern and eastern Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the Guianas |
- †Montrichardia aquatica Herrera - Colombia in Paleocene
M. linifera and M. arborescens can be differentiated by the appearance of their stem, leaves and spathe, with M. linifera having a stem described as "bamboo-like, smooth or tuberculate (never aculeate)" and M. arborescens having a "moderately slender, prominently aculeate" stem, among other differences.[4]
References
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- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ a b 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 (12): 1569–1583. doi:10.3732/ajb.0800172. PMID 21628164. S2CID 207654872.
- ^ Bown, Demi (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7.
- ^ Ortiz O, Ibáñez A, Trujillo-Trujillo E, Croat T (2020) "The emergent macrophyte Montrichardia linifera (Arruda) Schott (Alismatales: Araceae), a rekindled old friend from the Pacific Slope of lower Central America and western Colombia". Nord J Bot 38(9):1–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.02832
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