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Rhaphidophora tetrasperma Hook.f.

Mini monstera

Araceae · Thailand, Malaya · listed by its genus as a tropical foliage plant

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Summary

Rhaphidophora tetrasperma, the mini monstera, is a species of flowering plant in the family Araceae, genus Rhaphidophora. It is native to Southern Thailand and to Malaysia.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Rhaphidophora tetrasperma", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Rhaphidophora in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “climber”, “wet tropical”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Rhaphidophora in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “climber”, “wet tropical”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 1 of the 2 in-range records is placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though it counts for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeThailand, Malaya · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“climber” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 4 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: Theoperatingsystem, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Scott Wylie, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; LavaLampBamboo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Rhaphidophora 13 in the reference

Rhaphidophora cryptantha Rhaphidophora cryptantha Araceae Photo: CC BY-SA, KestrelRhaphidophora decursiva Rhaphidophora decursiva Araceae Photo: CC BY, Brodie Cass TalbottRhaphidophora hayi Rhaphidophora hayi Shingle plant Photo: CC BY, Luke LythgoeRhaphidophora hongkongensis Rhaphidophora hongkongensis Araceae Photo: CC BY, Thomas GyselinckRhaphidophora hookeri Rhaphidophora hookeri Araceae Photo: CC BY, P JeganathanRhaphidophora korthalsii Rhaphidophora korthalsii Araceae Photo: CC BY, Ong Jyh SengRhaphidophora liukiuensis Rhaphidophora liukiuensis Araceae Photo: CC BY, 林正文Rhaphidophora megaphylla Rhaphidophora megaphylla Araceae Photo: CC BY, Cheryl StinchcombRhaphidophora montana Rhaphidophora montana Araceae Photo: CC0, DaderotRhaphidophora neglecta Rhaphidophora neglecta Araceae Photo: CC0, observe-syzRhaphidophora pertusa Rhaphidophora pertusa Araceae Photo: CC BY, Ashwin Rhaphidophora sulcata Araceae all 14 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Araceae
Described by
Hook.f.
Native to
Thailand, Malaya
Wild records
2 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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