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Pothos (plant)

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This article is about a genus of flowering plants. For other uses, see Pothos.

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.[5][6][7][8]

Pothos
Pothos repens
1900 illustration[3]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Tribe: Potheae
Genus: Pothos
L. (1753)[1][2]
Synonyms[4]
  • Batis Blanco (1837), illegitimate homonym, not P.Browne 1756
  • Goniurus C.Presl (1851)
  • Pedicellarum M.Hotta (1976)
  • Tapanava Adans. (1763)

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

Species

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65 species are accepted.[4]

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

References

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  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 Pothos L. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  5. ^ "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew".
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Boyce, P.C. (2009). A review of Pothos L. (Araceae: Pothoideae: Pothoeae) for Thailand. Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany) 37: 15-26.
  8. ^ Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 6, 石柑属 shi gan shu, Pothos Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 968. 1753.
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