TY - JOUR AU - Cedeño-Fonseca, Marco AU - Hay, Alistair AU - Grayum, Michael H. AU - Blanco, Mario A. PY - 2020/07/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Two new endemic species of Monstera (Araceae: Monsteroideae: Monstereae) from Golfito in southern Costa Rica JF - Webbia JA - webbia VL - 75 IS - 1 SE - Special section on Araceae DO - 10.36253/jopt-8091 UR - https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/webbia/article/view/8091 SP - 123-132 AB - <p class="p1"><em>Monstera croatii</em> M.Cedeño &amp; A.Hay and <em>M. gambensis</em> M.Cedeño &amp; M.A.Blanco (Araceae: Monsteroideae: Monstereae) are newly described and illustrated from cantón Golfito in the Pacific lowlands of southern Costa Rica. Notes are provided on how they can be differentiated from similar species. <em>Monstera croatii</em> is unique in the genus because it reaches its adult vegetative morphology while growing as a terrestrial plant on the forest floor, and climbs only to a very limited height before flowering. <em>Monstera gambensis</em> is one of the smallest species in the genus.</p> ER -