Pothos
Pothos repens
1900 illustration[3]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Pothoideae
Genus: Pothos
L.[1][2]
Synonyms[4]
  • Tapanava Adans.
  • Batis Blanco 1837, illegitimate homonym, not P.Browne 1756
  • Goniurus C.Presl

Pothos is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae (tribe Potheae). It is native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, Australia, New Guinea, Southeast Asia, and various islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.[4][5][6][7]

The common houseplant Epipremnum aureum, also known as "pothos", was once classified under the genus Pothos.

Species

  1. Pothos armatus C.E.C.Fisch. - Kerala
  2. Pothos atropurpurascens M.Hotta - Borneo
  3. Pothos barberianus Schott- Borneo, Malaysia, Sumatra
  4. Pothos beccarianus Engl. - Borneo
  5. Pothos brassii B.L.Burtt - Queensland
  6. Pothos brevistylus Engl. - Borneo
  7. Pothos brevivaginatus Alderw. - Sumatra
  8. Pothos chinensis (Raf.) Merr. - China, Tibet, Taiwan, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Indochina, Himalayas, India, Nepal, Bhutan
  9. Pothos clavatus Engl. - New Guinea
  10. Pothos crassipedunculatus Sivad. & N.Mohanan - southern India
  11. Pothos curtisii Hook.f. - Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra
  12. Pothos cuspidatus Alderw. - western New Guinea
  13. Pothos cylindricus C.Presl - Sabah, Sulawesi, Philippines
  14. Pothos dolichophyllus Merr. - Philippines
  15. Pothos dzui P.C.Boyce - Vietnam
  16. Pothos englerianus (Engl.) Alderw. - Sumatra
  17. Pothos falcifolius Engl. & K.Krause - Maluku, New Guinea
  18. Pothos gigantipes Buchet ex P.C.Boyce - Vietnam, Cambodia
  19. Pothos gracillimus Engl. & K.Krause - Papua New Guinea
  20. Pothos grandis Buchet ex P.C.Boyce & V.D.Nguyen - Vietnam
  21. Pothos hellwigii Engl. - New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago
  22. Pothos hookeri Schott - Sri Lanka
  23. Pothos inaequilaterus (C.Presl) Engl. - Philippines
  24. Pothos insignis Engl. - Borneo, Palawan
  25. Pothos junghuhnii de Vriese - Borneo, Java, Sumatra
  26. Pothos keralensis A.G. Pandurangan & V.J. Nair - Kerala
  27. Pothos kerrii Buchet ex P.C.Boyce - Guangxi, Laos, Vietnam
  28. Pothos kingii Hook.f. - Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia
  29. Pothos lancifolius Hook.f. - Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia
  30. Pothos laurifolius P.C.Boyce & A.Hay - Brunei
  31. Pothos leptostachyus Schott - Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra
  32. Pothos longipes Schott - Queensland, New South Wales
  33. Pothos longivaginatus Alderw. - Borneo
  34. Pothos luzonensis (C.Presl) Schott - Luzon, Samar
  35. Pothos macrocephalus Scort. ex Hook.f. - Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra
  36. Pothos mirabilis Merr. - Sabah, Kalimantan Timur
  37. Pothos motleyanus Schott - Kalimantan
  38. Pothos oliganthus P.C.Boyce & A.Hay - Sarawak
  39. Pothos ovatifolius Engl. - Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Philippines
  40. Pothos oxyphyllus Miq. - Borneo, Sumatra, Java
  41. Pothos papuanus Becc. ex Engl. - New Guinea, Solomon Islands
  42. Pothos parvispadix Nicolson - Sri Lanka
  43. Pothos philippinensis Engl. - Philippines
  44. Pothos pilulifer Buchet ex P.C.Boyce - Yunnan, Guangxi, Vietnam
  45. Pothos polystachyus Engl. & K.Krause - Papua New Guinea
  46. Pothos remotiflorus Hook. - Sri Lanka
  47. Pothos repens (Lour.) Druce - Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan, Laos, Vietnam
  48. Pothos salicifolius Ridl. ex Burkill & Holttum
  49. Pothos scandens L. - Indian subcontinent, Indo-China, Malesia
  50. Pothos tener (Roxb.) Wall. - Maluku, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Vanuatu
  51. Pothos thomsonianus Schott - southern India
  52. Pothos touranensis Gagnep. - Vietnam
  53. Pothos versteegii Engl. - New Guinea
  54. Pothos volans P.C.Boyce & A.Hay - Brunei, Sarawak
  55. Pothos zippelii Schott - Maluku, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago

References

  1. ^ a b "Pothos". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens.
  2. ^ a b Linnaeus, C. (1753) Species Plantarum 2:968.
  3. ^ Fitch (d. 1927) - Curtis's Botanical Magazine v.126 [ser.3:v.56] (1900)
  4. ^ a b "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew".
  5. ^ Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  6. ^ Boyce, P.C. (2009). A review of Pothos L. (Araceae: Pothoideae: Pothoeae) for Thailand. Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany) 37: 15-26.
  7. ^ Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 6, 石柑属 shi gan shu, Pothos Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 968. 1753.

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