Monstera Kessleri
''Monstera kessleri'' is a flowering plant in genus ''Monstera'' of the arum family Araceae. Distribution It is native to Bolivia. References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q11785285 Monstera, kessleri Plants described in 2005 Flora of Bolivia ...
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Thomas Croat
Thomas Bernard Croat (born 23 May 1938 in St. Marys, Iowa) is an American botanist and plant collector, noteworthy as one of botanical history's "most prolific plant collectors". He has collected over 85,000 species of plants, particularly in the family Araceae, in his career at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Biography After serving for about two years in 1956–1958 as a radar technician in the U.S. Army, Croat matriculated at Simpson College, where he graduated in 1962 with a B.A., majoring in botany and minoring in chemistry. He then matriculated at the University of Kansas, where he graduated in 1967 with a Ph.D. in botany. His thesis is entitled "The genus ''Solidago'' of the north central Great Plains". At the Missouri Botanical Garden, Croat was from 1967 to 1971 an assistant botanist, from 1971 to 1976 a curator of phanerogams, from 1976 to 1977 and an associate curator. There he is since 1977 the P. A. Schulze Curator of Botany. From 1967 to 1971 he studied the flora ...
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