Pothos brevistylus Engl.

Slender to somewhat robust, heterophyllous (?), root-climbing liane. Shoot system only weakly differentiated into flowering and non-flowering branches; eocaul and seedling not observed. LEAVES mid-green adaxially, slightly paler abaxially, stiffly chartaceous, drying greyish green; petiole 2.5–12 × 0.3–0.4 cm, often rather stout, prominently geniculate apically, sheath extending to below the geniculum and briefly ligulate apically, clasping basally, prominent, later degrading into feeble fibres; blade 14–26 × 4–11.5 cm, narrowly to rather broadly oblong-ovate to oblong-elliptic, slightly oblique, occasionally falcate, base obtuse, rarely weakly cordate in largest examples, apex short-attenuate, minutely apiculate; primary lateral veins arising at 60–85°, intramarginal veins 2 per side, the outer intramarginal vein remaining very close and parallel to margin. INFLORESCENCE solitary to few together, usually subtended by cataphylls on condensed short shoots arising from below the axils of distal leaves, occasionally from such shoots arising (persisting?) on leafless older stems, much more rarely terminal on leafy shoots, erect; peduncle 2.5–4 × 0.1–0.15 cm, erect, yellowgreen. Spathe 1.5–4 × 0.25–1.4 cm, lorate to lorate-triangular, reflexed, not persisting into fruiting, base rounded and obliquely inserted on peduncle, apex acute, apiculate, yellow-green, very thinly leathery. Spadix stipitate; stipe 3–4 mm long; fertile portion 1.8–6 × 0.4–0.5 cm, cylindrical, yellow. Flowers c. 1.3 mm diam., with 6 free tepals and 6 stamens. INFRUCTESCENCE with numerous berries; fruits 7–10 × 4–7 mm, ellipsoid with a long slender persistent style, ripening red; seeds not observed.