Araceae
Pothos gracillimus Engl. & K.Krause
SUMMARY
Very slender, diminutive root-climbing liane or hemi-epiphyte. Shoot system very weakly differentiated into non-flowering and flowering branches; eocaul and seedling not observed. LEAVES pale green, sub-chartaceous; petiole c. 1.5–3 cm × 3–4 mm, laminalike, c. ¼–1/3 the length of the blade, distally rounded to somewhat auriculate; blade c. 5–9 cm × c. 3–7 mm, very narrowly lanceolate, apex attenuate, base rounded; primary lateral veins diverging at c. 20°, intramarginal veins 1 or 2 on each side of the midrib. INFLORESCENCE solitary on condensed short shoots in the axils of distal leaves, subtended by cataphylls, the last and longest very narrowly lanceolate, c. 1–1.5 cm long; peduncle to c. 3.5 cm long, very slender. Spathe 6–8 × 4–5 mm, ovate-lanceolate, green. Spadix sessile, c. 3–7 × 3–4 mm, subspherical to ovoid-cylindric, green. Flowers c. 1.2 mm diam., with 6 free tepals and 6 stamens. INFRUCTESCENCE with 1–few berries; fruit ovoid to elliptic-obovoid, c. 1 cm long, cherry red when ripe; seeds not observed.