You find it on a seller's page: a trailing stem, fenestrated leaves marbled with cream, listed simply as Monstera adansonii variegated. The price is significant — two figures, maybe three, depending on the variegation percentage and the seller's confidence. You've seen it before, or something like it. Except that last one had narrower leaves with a more pronounced drip tip. And the one before that had almost circular lobes, holes punched closer to the margin. Different plants, identical label.
The umbrella of Monstera adansonii has stretched to cover at least several distinct entities that botanists and serious collectors regard as separate species or at minimum stable morphological forms. Add variegation, which commands its own premium regardless of what's underneath it, and you have a category where provenance is murky, taxonomy is contested, and buyers are frequently paying species-specific prices for a name that describes a complex rather than a single plant. Understanding what you're actually buying requires knowing something about the complex itself.