Araceae
Pothos tener Wall.
SUMMARY
Very robust and vigorous, sometimes smothering, moderately ramified homeophyllous root-climbing liane reaching into the crowns of canopy trees. Shootsystem rather poorly differentiated into adherent and flowering branches; stem of mature sterile shoot to 2 cm diam., internodes up to 35 cm long, terete in cross-section; stem of juvenile shoot to 4 mm diam., terete in cross-section with the leaves slightly congested to scattered, the petioles weakly ascending, and the blades pendulous; eocaul foraging and climbing, often very long. LEAVES rich green, glossy above, stiffly chartaceous, drying pale grey-yellowish green; petiole 9–16.5 × 0.3–1.2 cm, stout, sheath prominent, reaching to the base of apical geniculum; blade 15–50 × 5–19 cm, pendulous, elliptic to ovate-oblong, tip somewhat acuminate to obtuse, ultimately with a flexuous filiform mucro, base acute; primary lateral venation diverging at c. 60–80°, crossed by usually three intramarginal veins on each side of the midrib, these arising from near the base of the midrib and running more or less to the leaf tip. INFLORESCENCE solitary at the end of leafy, pendulous shoots; peduncle 10–20 × 0.2–0.5 cm, about equaling the petiole of the subtending leaf, most of it within the sheath at flowering, but extending up to twice original length in fruiting specimens. Spathe 11–27 × 1–5 cm, somewhat exceeding the spadix, narrowly lanceolate, distally somewhat twisted, membranous, green. Spadix conspicuously stipitate; stipe 2–4 × 0.15–0.25 cm; fertile portion 10–22 × 0.35–0.8 cm, long-cylindrical, brownish green at flowering. Flowers c. 2.5 mm diam. with (4)–6 free to fused tepals and (4)–6 stamens. INFRUCTESCENCE considerably elongated, to 40 cm long, pendulous, often twisted, with very many berries; fruit to c. 2.5 × 1.5 cm, ovoid, scarlet when ripe; seeds c. 3 × 6 mm ellipsoid.