Epipremnum amplissimum is a species of flowering plant in the genus Epipremnum, native to Southeast Asia, from New Guinea to Vanuatu including northern Australia.[1][2]
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| Epipremnum amplissimum growing in Australia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Araceae |
| Genus: | Epipremnum |
| Species: | E. amplissimum
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| Binomial name | |
| Epipremnum amplissimum Schott
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| Synonyms | |
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Rhaphidophora amplissima | |
Like the more commonly known Epipremnum aureum (Pothos), it is an evergreen vine typically on a tree as an epiphyte. Unlike the fenestrations of Epipremnum pinnatum, this species does not develop dramatically new leaf shapes when climbing, with young foliage having a narrow elliptic shape and then increasing in length and breadth as it grows. The plant is most commonly kept in cultivation in its juvenile state, where it may have blue-gray variegation that disappears with maturity.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Epipremnum amplissimum (Schott) Engl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 1: 182 (1880).", World Checlist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Wiersema, John H.; León, Blanca (2016-04-19). World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference, Second Edition. CRC Press. p. 275. ISBN 978-1-4665-7681-0.
- ^ Boyce, Peter (January 2004). "A Review of Epipremnum (Araceae) in Cultivation". Journal of the International Aroid Society. 27.
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