Monstera sp. Peru, also known as Monstera karstenianum in horticulture (neither of the above names is official or accepted) is supposedly a small-growing Monstera plant. It is a hemi-epiphyte. Leaves are ovate and asymmetrical, very conspicuously bullate, glabrous and shiny.
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The genus name Monstera ( modern Latin), comes perhaps form Latin monstrum ‘monster’ (because of the unusual appearance of the leaves in some species). (uncertain)
Monstera sp. Peru (karstenianum) variegata
Monstera sp. Peru variegata is approx. 25 cm tall and comes in a 10 cm pot