Pothos clavatus Engl.

Slender root-climbing liane or hemi-epiphyte. Shoot system well differentiated into adherent, non-flowering and free, lateral flowering branches; ecocaul and seedling not observed. LEAVES dark green, rather fleshy; petiole 3–5 cm × 1.1–1.5 cm, lamina-like,shorter than the blade, distally emarginate to auriculate; blade c. 6.5–10 cm × 2–4.5 cm, narrowly ovate to ovate to oblong-obovate, apex acute to somewhat acuminate, base rounded; primary lateral nerves diverging at 40–60°, intramarginal veins 2 or 3 on each side of the midrib. INFLORESCENCE solitary, in the axils of distal leaves, borne on condensed short shoots and subtended by cataphylls, the last and largest oblong, c. 2 cm × 1 cm; peduncle 1–4.5 cm long, very abruptly expanded at junction with spadix and there c. 1 cm diam., blackish purple. Spathe c. 1.2 × 1 cm, broadly ovate, reflexed, greenish to purple-tinged. Spadix sessile; fertile portion c. 1.4 cm diam., ± spherical, yellow. Flowers c. 1.2 mm diam., with 6 free tepals and 6 stamens. INFRUCTESCENCE with rather few berries; fruit c. 1.1 cm long, ovoid, ripening red; seeds not observed.