Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition Epipremnum pinnatum cv. Aureum Family: Araceae Nicolson, D.H. (1978) Allertonia 1: 347. Type: LIlluustration Horticole pl. 381. Common name: Ivy, Devil's; Devil's Ivy; Hunter's Robe; Taro Vine; Vine, Taro; Pothos; Solomon Island Ivy; Golden Pothos; Ivy, Solomon Island; Pothos, Golden Stem Vine stem diameters to 4 cm recorded. Stems marked by large leaf base scars. Stem surface a patchwork of orange and green. Adventitious roots often present. Leaves Leaf blades usually marked by a few yellowish stripes extending from the midrib to the leaf blade margin. Leaf blades about 30-50 x 25-34 cm, margins somewhat thickened. Petioles about 30-40 cm long, flattened or shallowly grooved on the upper surface. Veins +/- translucent when viewed from the underside. 'Stipules' about 38 cm long, papery in texture, enclosing the petiole until the leaf has Habit. © CSIRO fully expanded. 'Oil dots' readily visible with a lens and occur in bands close to the lateral veins. White bundles of rhaphides visible on both the upper and lower surfaces of the leaf blade. Flowers Features not available. Fruit Features not available. Seedlings Features not available. Distribution and Ecology Scale bar 10mm. © CSIRO An introduced species originally from Malesia, now occurs in NEQ. Altitudinal range very small, from near sea level to 350 m. Grows in gallery forest on the coastal lowlands. This species does not appear to set seed but regenerates and propagates itself by runners, Quite vigorous and plentiful under favourable conditions. Natural History & Notes Often cultivated in tropical gardens from where it has escaped. Synonyms Vine stem bark and vine stem Epipremnum aureum (L.Linden & Andre) G.S.Bunting, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 50: 28(1963). transverse section. © CSIRO Pothos aureus L. Linden & Andre, Ill. Hort. 27: 69(1880). Scindapsus aureus (L. Linden & Andre) Engl., Pflanzenr. 37: 80(1908). Rhaphidophora aurea (L. Linden & Andre) Birdsey, Baileya 10: 159(1962). RFK Code 2210 Copyright © CSIRO 2020, all rights reserved. Web edition hosted at https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest.