Montrichardia

Montrichardia Temporal range: Paleocene to Recent 60–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
M. arborescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Alismatales
Family:	Araceae
Subfamily:	Aroideae
Genus:	Montrichardia Crüger
Species
†Montrichardia aquatica Montrichardia arborescens Montrichardia linifera'

Montrichardia is a genus of flowering plants in the Araceae family. It contains two species, Montrichardia arborescens and Montrichardia linifera, and one extinct species Montrichardia aquatica.^[1] The genus is helophytic and distributed in tropical America (West Indies, Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Lesser Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Surinam, 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.^[1] Living Montrichardia species have a chromosome number of 2n=48.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Herrera, F.A.; Jaramillo, C.A.; Dilcher, S.L.; Wing; Gómez-N, C. (2007). "Fossil Araceae from a Paleocene neotropical rainforest in Colombia". American Journal of Botany 95: 1569–1583. doi:10.3732/ajb.0800172. 

• Bown, Demi (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7.

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