Pothos mirabilis Merr.

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15560/17.3.931
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5466247
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scientific name	Pothos mirabilis Merr.
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Pothos mirabilis Merr. View in CoL

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Material examined. MALAYSIA – Sandakan • Sandakan, Myburgh Prov. ; [05°51′19″N, 117°53′4″E]; October 1921; A. D. E. Elmer 20364 (L) GoogleMaps • Sandakan, Labuk Sugut, below Bukit Panandawan ; 06°10′53″N, 117°35′48″E; 25 September 1984; G. Aban SAN 66890 ( SAN) GoogleMaps .

Identification. Pothos mirabilis is endemic to Sabah and is unique from its flower, its enormously elongated and twisted pendent spathe. Pothos mirabilis is allied to Pothos volans P.C.Boyce & A.Hay and Pothos wallichii Hook. f. due to its inflorescences are mostly produced from the tips of leafy shoots and this together with the long slender peduncle ( Boyce 2000).

Distribution and ecology. Endemic to Sabah. Lowland forest on yellow sandy loam, 20–300 m elev.