Monsteroideae
Subfamily of flowering plants
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Monsteroideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the family Araceae.
| Monsteroideae | |
|---|---|
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| Monstera deliciosa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Araceae |
| Subfamily: | Monsteroideae |
This subfamily is notable for having many trichosclereids in the vegetative and floral parts of the plants, but rarely in the roots.
Tribes and genera
Monotypic tribes
- Anadendreae: genus Anadendrum - SE Asia
- Heteropsideae: genus Heteropsis - S America
Monstereae
- Alloschemone - Amazon region (Bolivia, Brazil)
- Amydrium - SE Asia
- Epipremnum - Himalayas, SE Asia to Australia
- Monstera – tropical Americas and common houseplants
- Rhaphidophora - tropical Africa, Asia to W. Pacific.
- Rhodospatha – tropical Americas
- Scindapsus - SE Asia, New Guinea, Queensland, W Pacific Islands
- Stenospermation - central and South America
Spathiphylleae
- Holochlamys - New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago
- Spathiphyllum - tropical Americas, SE Asia including the Philippines and east of the Wallace line