Pothoidium

Pothoidium
Pothoidium lobbianum'
1905 illustration[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Pothoideae
Tribe: Potheae
Genus: Pothoidium
Schott
Species: P. lobbianum
Binomial name
Pothoidium lobbianum
Schott

Pothoidium is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Araceae family. The single species that comprises the genus is Pothoidium lobbianum. This species is native to Maluku, Sulawesi, the Philippines, and to Lan Yü Island (Orchid Island) of Taiwan.[2][3][4][5][6]

References

  1. Adolf Engler (d. 1930) - "Das Pflanzenreich" heft 21 (1905)
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  4. Kurniawan, A., Adjie, B. & Boyce, P.C. (2011). Studies on the Araceae of Sulawesi I: New taxa of Schismatoglottis and Homalomena, and a preliminary checklist and keys for Sulawesi. Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica 61: 40-50.
  5. Bown, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family [ILLUSTRATED]. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7
  6. Boyce, P. C. and Hay, A. D. (2001) A taxonomic revision of Araceae tribe Potheae (Pothos, Pothoidium and Pedicellarum) for Malesia, Australia and the tropical Western Pacific. Telopea 9(3) : 449-571.


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