Alloschemone Schott sec CATE Araceae, 2009 urn:lsid:cate-araceae.org:taxon:5c87454a-6bfb-1014-a918-dc439151c9e5
Schott 1858. Gen. Aroid.. , App.: 99
Distinguishing Features
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.
Distribution
N. Brazil to Bolivia.
Other Topics
Typification
Type species - Alloschemone poeppigiana Schott, nom. illeg. (=A. occidentalis (Poepp.) Engl. & K. Krause).
