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Monstera is a genus of about 40 species of climbing hemiepiphytes ranging from Mexico to Brazil and Bolivia, where these occur in tropical moist and humid forest, as well as in cloud forest (Mayo et al., 1997). Leaf development is heteroblastic with markedly different leaf forms, depending on the stage of development. The genus is divided into four sections: Tornelia and Echinospadix, each with a single species; and Monstera and Marcgraviopsis, the former having juvenile leaves free and exerted, and tightly appressed in the latter (Madison, 1977, Mayo et al., 1997). The Latin word monstrum (monster) refers to the peculiar perforations (fenestrae) of the leaves of many species.