Montrichardia
Sign in to saveMontrichardia 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. 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. Living M
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Vinony's link graph records 9 inbound references to Montrichardia, and connects out to Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela.
Vinony files it under Araceae genera and Aroideae.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAlismatales
- FamilyAraceae
Montrichardia Crueg. – rodzaj wysokich roślin zielnych, należący do rodziny obrazkowatych, liczący 2 gatunki żyjące w neotropikalnych regionach Ameryki Środkowej i Południowej: Montrichardia arborescens (L.) Schott i Montrichardia linifera (Arruda) Schott oraz gatunek wymarły Montrichardia aquatica†, który występował w okresie paleocenu na obecnym terytorium Kolumbii.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 57
- With media
- 11
- Family
- Araceae
- Collections
- CICY, UFPE, F, NY, MO, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA)
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Brasil, Colombia, Panama, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador
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- taxon common name
- montrichardia
- start time
- 60000000-0
- chromosome count
- 48
- ploidy
- diploidy
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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. 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. Living Montrichardia species have a diploid chromosome number of 2n=48.
==Species== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px||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 |- |120px ||Montrichardia linifera (Arruda) Schott|| aninga || northern and eastern Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the Guianas |- |} †Montrichardia aquatica Herrera - Colombia in Paleocene
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