Pothos longipes

Pothos longipes
Pothos longipes at Booyong Flora Reserve, Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Alismatales
Family:	Araceae
Subfamily:	Pothoideae
Tribe:	Potheae
Genus:	Pothos
Species:	P. longipes
Binomial name
Pothos longipes Schott.
Synonyms
Pothos brownii Domin.

Pothos longipes is a climbing plant of the warmer rainforests of eastern Australia. Distributed from Boorganna Nature Reserve in the Mid North Coast of New South Wales to tropical Queensland. Mostly found on trunks of trees. An attractive plant with interesting flowers and bright red fruit.

Description

A slender, glossy leaved climber or hemi-epiphyte. Leaves 1.5 to 5 cm long, 5 to 15 mm wide. Leaves flattened, appearing constricted with an apparent wasp waist in the middle of the leaf.

Flowers form in late spring to early summer, being greenish or purple, featuring a lanceolate shaped spathe, 25 mm long. The spadix is yellowish and cylindrical, up to 6 cm long. Flowers usually solitary, on a 5 cm stem. The fruit is a red drupe, 8 to 13 mm long. Germination from fresh seed is not particularly difficult.

Pothos longipes - flower in the form of a Spadix

References

• "Pothos longipes". PlantNET - NSW Flora Online. Retrieved 2010-01-29.