Taxon: Monstera deliciosa Liebm.

Common names:

• cut-leaf-philodendron   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• fruit-salad-plant   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Mexican-breadfruit   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• monstera   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• Swiss-cheese-plant   (Source: Bot Mag 12:85. 1995) – English
  
• cériman   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• großes Fensterblatt   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Philodendron   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• banana-de-macaco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• banana-do-brejo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• banana-do-mato   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• balazos   (Source: Trop Flow Pl ) – Spanish
  
• harpón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• piñanona monstera   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• monstera   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed13)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia; Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Lampe & McCann)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Monstera deliciosa from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; Guatemala; Panama

• widely cultivated in tropics

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Boyce, P. 1995. Amydrium zippelianum Araceae. Bot. Mag. 12:85.
• Dodson, C. H. & A. H. Gentry. 1978. Flora of the Rio Palenque science center.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 2002. World checklist and bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• Llamas, K. A. 2003. Tropical flowering plants: a guide to identification and cultivation.
• Madison, M. T. 1977. A revision of Monstera (Araceae). Contr. Gray Herb. 207:94–97.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Monstera deliciosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Monstera deliciosa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Monstera deliciosa.

Check other web resources for Monstera deliciosa Liebm.:

• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Monstera deliciosa cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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