Pothos motleyanus Schott

Wong, Sin Yeng & Joling, Jyloerica, 2021, Checklist of aroids (Alismatales, Araceae) from Sabah (Malaysian Borneo), Check List 17 (3), pp. 931-974 : 957

Pothos motleyanus Schott

Material examined. MALAYSIA – Federal Territory of Labuan • P. Labuan; Motley 99 (holo K).

Identification. Pothos motleyanus belongs to the Goniurus supergroup ( Boyce & Hay 2001), with the spadix with scattered flowers. Inflorescences carried on much abbreviated stems clothed in minute cataphylls and arising from the mid-parts (rarely the tips) of sterile mature stems. In P. curtisii these lateral shoots arise from beneath the leaf axil (or node) and are elaborated by sympodial branching into leafless, sometimes highly complex, compact, or lax synflorescences bearing two to many in- florescences simultaneously, or sometimes single inflo- rescences in series. Synflorescences are usually borne along or at the end of leafy branches or, more rarely on older leafless parts of the stem.

Distribution and ecology. Endemic to Sabah. The type is from Labuan and the species has not been refound anywhere in Sabah, Sarawak, and Brunei.