Editing Epipremnum aureum (section)

==History and etymology==
[[File:Epipremnum aureum as Pothos aureus.jpg|thumb|An illustration from 1871 described by Linden & André as ''Pothos aureus.'' Note that it is misspelled as “''Pothos aurea''”.]]
This species has been assigned to a number of genera; in 1880 when it was first described, it was named ''Pothos aureus'', which is why it is often commonly referred to as a "pothos". After an [[inflorescence]] was observed in 1962, it was given the new name of ''Rhaphidophora aurea''. However, after closer examination of the flower, researchers noticed its heightened similarity to ''[[Epipremnum pinnatum]]'' and synonymised it with that species. Only after closer observation of the entirety of the plant, including the leaves and growth patterns, did researchers again separate it from ''E. pinnatum'', and classify it as ''E. aureum''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Hung, Qiu, Sun, Chen, Kittur, Henny, Jin, Fan & Xie|first=Chiu-Yueh, Jie, Ying-Hsuan, Jianjun, Farooqahmed S., Richard J., Gule, Longjiang & Jiahua|date=27 June 2016|title=Gibberellin deficiency is responsible for shy-flowering nature of ''Epipremnum aureum''|url= |journal=Scientific Reports|volume=6|pages=28598|doi=10.1038/srep28598|pmid=27345283|pmc=4921968|bibcode=2016NatSR...628598H}}</ref>