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The genus Monstera is in the family Araceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Monstera

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Monstera acacoyaguensis Matuda	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera acuminata K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera adansonii Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera amargalensis Croat & M.M.Mora	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera aureopinnata Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera barrieri Croat, Moonen & Poncy	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera buseyi Croat & Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera cenepensis Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera costaricensis (Engl. & K.Krause) Croat & Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera deliciosa Liebm.	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera dissecta (Schott) Croat & Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera dubia (Kunth) Engl. & K.Krause	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera epipremnoides Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera filamentosa Croat & Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera glaucescens Croat & Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera gracilis Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera kessleri Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera lechleriana Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera lentii Croat & Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera luteynii Madison	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera membranacea Madison	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera minima Madison	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera molinae Croat & Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera obliqua Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera oreophila Madison	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera pinnatipartita Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera pittieri Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera praetermissa E.G.Gonç. & Temponi	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera punctulata (Schott) Schott ex Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera siltepecana Matuda	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera spruceana (Schott) Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera standleyana G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera subpinnata (Schott) Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera tenuis K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera tuberculata Lundell	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera vasquezii Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Monstera xanthospatha Madison	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 148 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Monstera. Of these 37 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 16 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Monstera. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 148 species names for the genus Monstera recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	37	25.0%
◕	Synonym	78	52.7%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.7%
◕	Unassessed	32	21.6%

All names

The status of the 164 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Monstera recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	41	25.0%
◕	Synonym	90	54.9%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.6%
◕	Unassessed	32	19.5%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 148 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Monstera, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	37	76	0	0	113	76.4%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	1.4%
	Low confidence	0	0	1	32	33	22.3%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Monstera, are as follows: