Araceae
Monstera vasquezii Croat
SUMMARY
Hemiepiphytic climber; internodes to 2.5 cm long, drying 1.8 cm diam., epidermis semiglossy, drying medium gray-brown, frequently peeling free, the underlying stem drying blackened, matte, weakly & closely ribbed. Petioles 29 cm long, thicker than broad, 8–9 mm thick, to 1 cm wide at the base, 5–6 mm wide toward the apex, drying matte, gray-brown, narrowly sulcate adaxially with the margins raised, sheathed throughout most of its length, the margin promptly deciduous with a few brown fibers persisting; blades entire, narrowly ovate, 56 × 26 cm, 2.1 cm longer than wide, acuminate at apex, rounded at base, yellowish gray-green above and below; midrib broadly raised and weakly paler above, narrowly rounded and paler below, drying yellow-brown, matte; primary lateral veins 14 per side, arising at an acute angle, then spreading at 70–85° angle, drying flattened and darker than surface, finely and minutely ridged; minor veins reticulate throughout the region between the midrib and the margin but moderately obscure on lower surface. Inflorescence solitary; peduncle 13 cm long, drying blackened, 6 mm diam.; spadix 17 cm long, drying 3.1 cm wide; pistil 1.2 × 2.2–2.5 mm; stigma 3.2–3.6 × 3.8–3.0 mm, dark brown, matte, irregularly oblong to rounded or hexagonal; stigma oblong, 3–3.4 mm long, 1 mm wide, deeply sunken medially with a brown raised rim.
Croat, Swart & Yates 2005: 97.