Kingdom Plantae Family Araceae Scientific name Montrichardia Rank Genus | Order Alismatales Subfamily Aroideae Higher classification Arum | |
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Similar Montrichardia arborescens, Arum, Montrichardia linifera, Dracontium, Culcasia | ||
Boating along the montrichardia forest floating forest amazon river basin
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. 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 chromosome number of 2n=48.
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