Several months ago, I ordered some plants online, and one of them I received was labelled as monstera. This plant has grown a lot since then and this is what it looks like now.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/17398687@N02/4800240560/
In my opinion, this doesn't look like monstera at all. Don't monsteras have broad shiny leaves with holes in them? I'm also concerned that there is only one single stem on this plant that is growing SO long. The pot that it's in isn't that big, so I'm concerned about whether I should repot it or not? Should I cut back the stem any? Is there any way to get the plant to branch more instead of just one looong stem?
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microcollie
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The leaf shape rules out m. deliciosa, the best known. There are a couple that I've seen, obliqua and adansoni are the only two names that come to mind, that have that more oblong leaf shape. Sometimes young plants will produce leaves without holes for a while, until they mature. A more close up phot might help. I'm not completely sold that it's monstera, but it's a little hard to tell without being able to see a leaf.
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lorax
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I'd be going with Epipremnium, myself. Aroids are famously variable, though - it's quite possible you have a juvenile plant of one of the more obscure Monsteras. If it's going to develop fenestrations (holes and splits) it will do it once it's older. Microcollie mentioned M. obliqua - that's native to the forests in my area, and looks awfully like yours when it's young. However, it's fairly rare outside of specialist collections.
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thanrose
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Lorax is definitely more acquainted with aroids than I am, and I'm lending my impressions that support her mention of Epipremnum. This is the genus that has pothos or devils ivy. Look at the closeup of the leaf on Kalanchoee's photo, bottom of the page. The venation is rather more like Epipremnum spp. than Monstera spp.
BUT, haha, there is a Monstera that is named Monstera epipremnoides. That would mean there are characteristics that make it look like an Epipremnum. The only pic I find of it shows what looks to be the more relief textured venation typical of Epipremnum spp.
Still, for a firm ID, there are other things you could describe or photo. What is the leaf stem or petiole like? Is there a papery cataphyll, or sheath that covers the budding leaf? Or is the petiole with a groove perhaps with a papery edge that would hold the next leaf shoot? How about the root nodes right where the petiole joins the actual stem? Any spurs at the base of the leaves, any tiny hairs or pigmentation other than green that you note?
BUT, haha, there is a Monstera that is named Monstera epipremnoides. That would mean there are characteristics that make it look like an Epipremnum. The only pic I find of it shows what looks to be the more relief textured venation typical of Epipremnum spp.
Still, for a firm ID, there are other things you could describe or photo. What is the leaf stem or petiole like? Is there a papery cataphyll, or sheath that covers the budding leaf? Or is the petiole with a groove perhaps with a papery edge that would hold the next leaf shoot? How about the root nodes right where the petiole joins the actual stem? Any spurs at the base of the leaves, any tiny hairs or pigmentation other than green that you note?