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Type: Article
Published: 2020-03-23
Page range: 39–46
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Monstera guzmanjacobiae (Araceae), a new species from Mexico with notes on its reproductive biology

Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales, Universidad Veracruzana, José María Morelos No. 44 y 45. Col. Centro, C.P. 91000, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales, Universidad Veracruzana, José María Morelos No. 44 y 45. Col. Centro, C.P. 91000, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, 6007801, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Programa de Posgrado en Biología and Herbario Luis Fournier Origgi (USJ), Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica.
Departamento de Biología, Universidad del Valle, Calle 13 #100-00, Cali, Colombia.
Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A.
Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales, Universidad Veracruzana, José María Morelos No. 44 y 45. Col. Centro, C.P. 91000, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
Macaw Recovery Network, Escazú, Costa Rica, 10203.
Universidad de Costa Rica, Recinto Golfito, Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales, Universidad Veracruzana, José María Morelos No. 44 y 45. Col. Centro, C.P. 91000, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, 6007801, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Monstera Araceae Veracruz Los Tuxtlas Mexico Monocots

Abstract

The genus Monstera is represented in Mexico by nine species, of which five are reported for the region of Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz. During fieldwork between 2014 and 2019 in Los Tuxtlas, we discovered a previously undescribed species belonging to Sect. Marcgraviopsis and consisting of a third species from Mexico with a pendent habit. The new species Monstera guzmanjacobiae, is described taxonomically and illustrated, using color photographs of vegetative and reproductive features in living material. The behavior of flowering coincides with that observed in other species of Monstera. Both nitidulid beetles and drosophilid flies found inside the chamber may be the pollinators of M. guzmanjacobiae.