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.

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

Pothos (plant)

Species

Pothos armatus C.E.C.Fisch. - Kerala

Pothos atropurpurascens M.Hotta - Borneo

Pothos barberianus Schott- Borneo, Malaysia, Sumatra

Pothos beccarianus Engl. - Borneo

Pothos brassii B.L.Burtt - Queensland

Pothos brevistylus Engl. - Borneo

Pothos brevivaginatus Alderw. - Sumatra

Pothos chinensis (Raf.) Merr. - China, Tibet, Taiwan, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Indochina, Himalayas, India, Nepal, Bhutan Pothos clavatus Engl. - New Guinea Pothos crassipedunculatus Sivad. & N.Mohanan - southern India Pothos curtisii Hook.f. - Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra Pothos cuspidatus Alderw. - western New Guinea Pothos cylindricus C.Presl - Sabah, Sulawesi, Philippines Pothos dolichophyllus Merr. - Philippines Pothos dzui P.C.Boyce - Vietnam Pothos englerianus (Engl.) Alderw. - Sumatra Pothos falcifolius Engl. & K.Krause - Maluku, New Guinea Pothos gigantipes Buchet ex P.C.Boyce - Vietnam, Cambodia Pothos gracillimus Engl. & K.Krause - Papua New Guinea Pothos grandis Buchet ex P.C.Boyce & V.D.Nguyen - Vietnam Pothos hellwigii Engl. - New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago Pothos hookeri Schott - Sri Lanka Pothos inaequilaterus (C.Presl) Engl. - Philippines Pothos insignis Engl. - Borneo, Palawan Pothos junghuhnii de Vriese - Borneo, Java, Sumatra Pothos keralensis A.G. Pandurangan & V.J. Nair - Kerala Pothos kerrii Buchet ex P.C.Boyce - Guangxi, Laos, Vietnam Pothos kingii Hook.f. - Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia Pothos lancifolius Hook.f. - Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia Pothos laurifolius P.C.Boyce & A.Hay - Brunei Pothos leptostachyus Schott - Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra Pothos longipes Schott - Queensland, New South Wales Pothos longivaginatus Alderw. - Borneo Pothos luzonensis (C.Presl) Schott - Luzon, Samar Pothos macrocephalus Scort. ex Hook.f. - Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra Pothos mirabilis Merr. - Sabah, Kalimantan Timur Pothos motleyanus Schott - Kalimantan Pothos oliganthus P.C.Boyce & A.Hay - Sarawak Pothos ovatifolius Engl. - Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Philippines Pothos oxyphyllus Miq. - Borneo, Sumatra, Java Pothos papuanus Becc. ex Engl. - New Guinea, Solomon Islands Pothos parvispadix Nicolson - Sri Lanka Pothos philippinensis Engl. - Philippines Pothos pilulifer Buchet ex P.C.Boyce - Yunnan, Guangxi, Vietnam Pothos polystachyus Engl. & K.Krause - Papua New Guinea Pothos remotiflorus Hook. - Sri Lanka Pothos repens (Lour.) Druce - Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan, Laos, Vietnam Pothos salicifolius Ridl. ex Burkill & Holttum Pothos scandens L. - Indian subcontinent, Indo-China, Malesia Pothos tener (Roxb.) Wall. - Maluku, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Vanuatu Pothos thomsonianus Schott - southern India Pothos touranensis Gagnep. - Vietnam Pothos versteegii Engl. - New Guinea Pothos volans P.C.Boyce & A.Hay - Brunei, Sarawak Pothos zippelii'' Schott - Maluku, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago

Pothos (plant)

References

External links

Pothos page on CATE Araceae

Pothoideae

Araceae genera

Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus

Plants described in 1753

Low light plants

Pothos (plant)