Checklist of aroids (Alismatales, Araceae) from Sabah (Malaysian Borneo)
Author
Wong, Sin Yeng
Author
Joling, Jyloerica
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Check List
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http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/17.3.931
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10.15560/17.3.931
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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
.