- Family: Araceae Juss.
Alloschemone Schott
This genus is accepted, and its native range is N. Brazil to Bolivia.
Descriptions
According to CATE Araceae
[CATE]CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org
- Diagnostic
- Climbing hemiepiphytes with abundant trichosclereids; stem epidermis becoming distincly corky and longitudinally furrowed with age; adult leaf blade pinnatifid, flowers bisexual. Differs from Monstera in that it has a 1-locular ovary, ovule solitary, amphitropous with basal placentation.
- Habitat
- Tropical humid forest; climbing hemiepiphytes.
- General Description
- HABIT : evergreen climbing herbs, stem epidermis becoming distinctly corky and longitudinally furrowed with age. LEAVES : large, juvenile leaves unknown. PETIOLE : geniculate apically, thickened at base, sheath short. BLADE : pinnatifid, subcordate, lobes (pinnae) acute, falcate, 4-6 per side, primary lateral veins 1 per lobe (pinna), secondary laterals ± parallel-pinnate, higher order venation reticulate. INFLORESCENCE : solitary. PEDUNCLE : shorter than petiole. SPATHE : ovate-cymbiform, deciduous. SPADIX : stipitate, cylindric, apex obtuse. FLOWERS : bisexual, perigone absent. STAMENS : 4, filaments flattened, free or connate, shorter than ovary, thecae oblong, dehiscing laterally by oblique, apical, pore-like slit. POLLEN : not fully zonate, ellipsoid, medium-sized (mean 46 µm), exine shallowly foveolate. GYNOECIUM : ovary prismatic, 1-locular, with abundant locular mucilage, ovule 1, amphitropous, funicle with trichomes, placenta basal, stylar region densely packed with trichosclereids, stigma sessile, elliptic. BERRY : unknown. SEED : unknown.
- Distribution
- N. Brazil to Bolivia.
Images
Distribution
Accepted Species
Other Data
Alloschemone Schott appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Gen. Aroid., App.: 99 (1858)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
CATE Araceae
- Bogner, J., Boyce, P.C. & Sakuragui, C.M. 2001. A revision of Alloschemone Schott (Araceae: Monstereae). Aroideana. 24: 80-93
Sources
CATE Araceae
Haigh, A., Clark, B., Reynolds, L., Mayo, S.J., Croat, T.B., Lay, L., Boyce, P.C., Mora, M., Bogner, J., Sellaro, M., Wong, S.Y., Kostelac, C., Grayum, M.H., Keating, R.C., Ruckert, G., Naylor, M.F. and Hay, A., CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011.
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0