Studies on potheae (Araceae) of borneo ii: Pedicellarum m.hotta subsumed into pothos l., and recognition of three new species

Abstract

Pedicellarum is subsumed into Pothos as Pothos paiei. Four species, three tax-onomically novel (Pothos degenerans, ecclesiae and P. fractiflexus) and one pre-existing (Pothos oliganthus) are discussed. The reproductive structures are reinterpreted and flo-ral terminology used in this paper is in line with paving the way to interpreting the ‘inflorescence’ of Pothos, and indeed of all other aroids, as a unique array of structures that are neither flowers nor inflorescences as defined by current prevailing orthodoxy, but something of both.