Monstera gentryi
Monstera gentryi is a little-known climbing Monstera from the mountains of western and central Panama, recorded between about 750 and 2000 m in ChiriquÃ, Bocas del Toro and Veraguas. It lives in cool, very wet premontane and montane forest, so it wants mild temperatures, high humidity and moderate light rather than lowland heat. Little is published about it beyond herbarium records, so care here is built from the measured climate and general Monstera biology.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium records come from montane forest trails such as the route to Cerro Pata de Macho near Boquete, La Amistad International Park and Santa Fe National Park. Like other Monstera it is presumably a hemiepiphytic climber that starts on the forest floor and climbs tree trunks; its detailed growth habit is not documented in sources we could reach.
Recorded at 750 to 2000 m, median about 1465 m; the type locality near Cerro Pata de Macho is at about 1750 m.
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