Studies on Potheae of Borneo I: Pothos pugnax, a new species of Pothos [Allopothos: Pothos barberianus group] from Kuching Division, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

Abstract

ABSTRACT Pothos pugnax is described and illustrated as a new species [Allopothos supergroup: Pothos barberianus group] from ridgetop kerangas in Kuching Division, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Comparison is made with Pothos atropurpurascens the only closely similar species occurring on Borneo, and also between the confoundable shingling stages of P. pugnax and the parapatric but distantly related Pothos beccarianus [Goniurus supergroup].