Montrichardia
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 M
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- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAlismatales
- FamilyAraceae
Native toBelize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras
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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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