Pothos (plant)

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[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Alismatales
Family:	Araceae
Tribe:	Potheae
Genus:	Pothos L. (1753)[2][3]
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

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