Montrichardia

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Montrichardia
Temporal range: Paleocene to Recent 60–0  Ma
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Montrichardia arborescens
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Aroideae
Tribe: Montrichardieae
Genus: Montrichardia
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Synonyms [1]

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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 . [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]

Species


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]

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  8. Lacmellea floribunda(Poepp.) Benth. & Hook.f. - Peru, NW Brazil, Suriname, French Guiana
  9. Lacmellea foxii(Stapf) Markgr. - Peru
  10. Lacmellea gracilis(Müll.Arg.) Markgr. - N Peru, NW Brazil
  11. Lacmellea guyanensis(Müll.Arg.) Monach - French Guiana
  12. Lacmellea klugiiMonach. - Peru
  13. Lacmellea macranthaJ.F.Morales - Ecuador
  14. Lacmellea microcarpa(Müll.Arg.) Markgr. - Colombia, S Venezuela, NW Brazil
  15. Lacmellea oblongataMarkgr. - SE Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
  16. Lacmellea panamensis(Woodson) Markgr. - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
  17. Lacmellea pauciflora(Kuhlm.) Markgr. - Brazil
  18. Lacmellea peruviana(Van Heurck & Müll.Arg.) Markgr. - Peru
  19. Lacmellea pygmaeaMonach. - Amazonas State in Venezuela
  20. Lacmellea ramosissima(Müll.Arg.) Markgr. - Colombia, S Venezuela, NW Brazil
  21. Lacmellea speciosaWoodson - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
  22. Lacmellea standleyi(Woodson) Monach. - Belize, Guatemala, Honduras
  23. Lacmellea utilis(Arn.) Markgr. - S Venezuela, Guyana
  24. Lacmellea zamoraeJ.F.Morales - Costa Rica
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<i>Montrichardia linifera</i> Species of flowering plant

Montrichardia linifera, also known under the common name aninga, is a tropical plant native to South America. The aquatic species is a helophyte and can grow up to seven meters in height. The plant often grows in monospecific stands and thickes along rivers, lakes and other wetlands.

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. 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 (12): 1569–1583. doi:10.3732/ajb.0800172. PMID   21628164. S2CID   207654872.
  3. ↑ Bown, Demi (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN   0-88192-485-7.
  4. ↑ 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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