Monstera 'Esqueleto'
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| Monstera 'Esqueleto' | |
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| Monstera sp. aff. lechleriana 'Esqueleto' at the Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens in 2008. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Araceae |
| Tribe: | Monstereae |
| Genus: | Monstera |
| Species: | M. sp. aff. lechleriana 'Esqueleto' |
| Binomial name | |
| Monstera sp. aff. lechleriana 'Esqueleto' | |
Monstera 'Esqueleto' is an undescribed species of flowering plant in the family Araceae, of unknown provenance and without accompanying accession data. It has been widely cultivated in botanical gardens for many decades and may have been first shared from collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, before recently becoming more widely available to the public. For many years, it was incorrectly identified as Monstera epipremnoides until 2019 when that species was being more thoroughly documented for a revision of Monstera species in Costa Rica.[1] The plant in cultivation, finally known not to be M. epipremnoides, was now a nameless botanical mystery. Although it is not believed to be a cultivar, but rather a species collected from the wild, the cultivar name 'Esqueleto' was given to it by Jody Benicek as a placeholder name in order to be able to unambiguously refer to it until it receives a species epithet, pending publication. The location of its wild population is unknown.[2]
