Alocasia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Alismatales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Ordo: Alismatales

Familia: Araceae
Subfamilia: Aroideae
Tribus: Colocasieae
Genus: Alocasia
Species: A. acuminata – A. aequiloba – A. alba – A. arifolia – A. atropurpurea – A. augustiana – A. azlanii – A. bachii – A. baginda – A. balgooyi – A. beccarii – A. boa – A. boyceana – A. brancifolia – A. brisbanensis – A. cadieri – A. celebica – A. chaii – A. chantrieri – A. clypeolata – A. conspicua – A. cucullata – A. culionensis – A. cuprea – A. decipiens – A. decumbens – A. devansayana – A. evrardii – A. fallax – A. farisii – A. flabellifera – A. flemingiana – A. fornicata – A. gageana – A. grata – A. hainanica – A. hararganjensis – A. heterophylla – A. hollrungii – A. hypoleuca – A. infernalis – A. inornata – A. jiewhoei – A. kerinciensis – A. lancifolia – A. lauterbachiana – A. lecomtei – A. lihengiae – A. longiloba – A. macrorrhizos – A. maquilingensis – A. megawatiae – A. melo – A. micholitziana – A. miniuscula – A. monticola – A. navicularis – A. nebula – A. nicolsonii – A. nycteris – A. odora – A. pangeran – A. peltata – A. perakensis – A. portei – A. princeps – A. principiculus – A. puber – A. puncakborneensis – A. puteri – A. pyrospatha – A. ramosii – A. reginae – A. reginula – A. reversa – A. ridleyi – A. rivularis – A. robusta – A. salarkhanii – A. sanderiana – A. sarawakensis – A. scabriuscula – A. scalprum – A. sedenii – A. simonsiana – A. sinuata – A. suhirmaniana – A. venusta – A. vietnamensis – A. wentii – A. wongii – A. yunqiana – A. zebrina
Nothospecies: A. × mortfontanensis – A. × okinawensis

Source(s) of checklist:
Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Alocasia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Nov. 02. Reference page.

Name

Alocasia (Schott) G.Don, Hort. Brit. (ed. 3) 631. (1839) nom. cons.

Type species: Alocasia cucullata (Lour.) G.Don, Hort. Brit. (ed. 3) 631. (1839)}} (typ. cons.)

Synonyms

Basionym
- Colocasia sect. Alocasia Schott, Meletemata Botanica (Schott & Endlicher) 18. (1832)
Heterotypic
- Ensolenanthe Schott, in Bonplandia. 9: 368. (1861)
- Schizocasia Schott, Bonplandia (Hannover) 10: 148. (1862)
- Xenophya Schott, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 1: 124. (1863)
- Panzhuyuia Z.Y.Zhu, J.Sichuan Chinese Med. School 4(5): 49. (1985)

Homonyms

Alocasia Neck., Elem. Bot. (Necker) 3: 289. (1790), nom. inval. Published in opera utiq. oppr.
Alocasia Neck. ex Raf. Fl. Tell. 3: 64. (1837) nom. rej. vs. Alocasia (Schott) G. Don (1839) (nom. cons.)

References

Don, G. in Sweet, R. 1839. Sweet's Hortus Britannicus ed. 3, 631.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Alocasia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Nov. 02. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Alocasia. Published online. Accessed: Nov. 02 2021.
Tropicos.org 2021. Alocasia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 02 Nov. 2021.
Flora of Pakistan (2008). 'eFloras. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA. 2009 Nov 06 [1].

Vernacular names

English: Elephant's Ears Plant
eesti: Alokaasia
suomi: Alokasiat, juurakkovehkat