Pothos

Accepted species 67 Documented here 5 Family Araceae

Accepted species 67 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Pothos chinensis (Raf.) Merr. 168 documented
Pothos longipes Schott 124 documented
Pothos scandens L. 21 documented
Pothos armatus C.E.C.Fisch. 5 documented
Pothos brassii B.L.Burtt 3 documented
Pothos barberianus Schott 1 below the evidence gate
Pothos cylindricus C.Presl 1 below the evidence gate
Pothos ovatifolius Engl. 1 below the evidence gate
Pothos atropurpurascens M.Hotta 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos beccarianus Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos boyceanus G.Rajkumar, Shaju, Nazarudeen & Prakashk. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos brevistylus Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos brevivaginatus Alderw. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos clavatus Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos crassipedunculatus Sivad. & N.Mohanan 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos curtisii Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos cuspidatus Alderw. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos degenerans S.Y.Wong, P.C.Boyce & A.Hay 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos dolichophyllus Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos dzui P.C.Boyce 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos ecclesiae P.C.Boyce, S.Y.Wong & A.Hay 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos englerianus Alderw. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos falcifolius Engl. & K.Krause 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos fractiflexus Joling, J.T.Pereira & Damit 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos gigantipes Buchet ex P.C.Boyce 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos gracillimus Engl. & K.Krause 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos grandis Buchet ex P.C.Boyce & V.D.Nguyen 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos hellwigii Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos hookeri Schott 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos inaequilaterus (C.Presl) Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos insignis Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos junghuhnii de Vriese 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos keralensis A.G.Pandurangan & V.J.Nair 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos kerrii Buchet ex P.C.Boyce 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos kingii Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos lancifolius Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos laurifolius P.C.Boyce & A.Hay 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos leptostachyus Schott 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos longivaginatus Alderw. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos luzonensis (C.Presl) Schott 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos macrocephalus Scort. ex Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos mirabilis Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos mottleyanus Schott 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos oliganthus P.C.Boyce & A.Hay 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos oxyphyllus Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos paiei (M.Hotta) S.Y.Wong, A.Hay & P.C.Boyce 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos papuanus Becc. ex Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos parvispadix Nicolson 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos philippinensis Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos pilulifer Buchet ex P.C.Boyce 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos polystachyus Engl. & K.Krause 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos pugnax P.C.Boyce & S.Y.Wong 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos remotiflorus Hook. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos repens (Lour.) Druce 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos reptans Link & Otto ex Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos roxburghii de Vriese 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos rubescens Link & Otto ex Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos salicifolius Ridl. ex Burkill & Holttum 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos tener Wall. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos thomsonianus Schott 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos tirunelveliensis Sasikala & Reema Kumari 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos touranensis Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos venustus (Wall. ex C.DC.) A.Hay & P.C.Boyce 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos versteegii Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos vietnamensis V.D.Nguyen & P.C.Boyce 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos volans P.C.Boyce & A.Hay 0 below the evidence gate
Pothos zippelii Schott 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.