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The genus Pothos is in the family Araceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pothos

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pothos armatus C.E.C.Fisch.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos atropurpurascens M.Hotta	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos barberianus Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos beccarianus Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos brassii B.L.Burtt	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos brevistylus Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos brevivaginatus Alderw.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos chinensis (Raf.) Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos clavatus Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos crassipedunculatus Sivad. & N.Mohanan	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos curtisii Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos cuspidatus Alderw.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos cylindricus C.Presl	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos dolichophyllus Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos dzui P.C.Boyce	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos englerianus Alderw.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos falcifolius Engl. & K.Krause	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos gigantipes Buchet ex P.C.Boyce	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos gracillimus Engl. & K.Krause	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos grandis Buchet ex P.C.Boyce & V.D.Nguyen	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos hellwigii Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos hookeri Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos inaequilaterus (C.Presl) Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos insignis Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos junghuhnii de Vriese	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos keralensis A.G.Pandurangan & V.J.Nair	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos kerrii Buchet ex P.C.Boyce	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos kingii Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos lancifolius Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos laurifolius P.C.Boyce & A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos leptostachyus Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos longipes Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos longivaginatus Alderw.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos luzonensis (C.Presl) Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos macrocephalus Scort. ex Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos mirabilis Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos motleyanus Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos oliganthus P.C.Boyce & A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos ovatifolius Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos oxyphyllus Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos papuanus Becc. ex Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos parvispadix Nicolson	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos philippinensis Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos pilulifer Buchet ex P.C.Boyce	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos polystachyus Engl. & K.Krause	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos remotiflorus Hook.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos repens (Lour.) Druce	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos reptans (G. Don) Link & Otto ex Steud.	Accepted		TRO
Pothos roxburghii de Vriese	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos rubescens (G. Don) Link & Otto ex Steud.	Accepted		TRO
Pothos salicifolius Ridl. ex Burkill & Holttum	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos scandens L.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos tener Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos thomsonianus Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos touranensis Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos versteegii Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos volans P.C.Boyce & A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Pothos zippelii Schott	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 254 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pothos. Of these 58 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 17 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pothos. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 254 species names for the genus Pothos recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	58	22.8%
◕	Synonym	171	67.3%
◕	Unplaced	13	5.1%
◕	Unassessed	12	4.7%

All names

The status of the 271 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pothos recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	58	21.4%
◕	Synonym	188	69.4%
◕	Unplaced	13	4.8%
◕	Unassessed	12	4.4%

Of these names,

• 8 are recorded as invalid
• 22 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 254 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pothos, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	56	155	0	0	211	83.1%
	Medium confidence	2	12	0	0	14	5.5%
	Low confidence	0	4	13	12	29	11.4%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Pothos, are as follows: