Details for: TARS 18183, Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don, Giant Variegated Elephant Ear


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don
Top Name:
Giant Variegated Elephant Ear
Origin:
Collected – Puerto Rico, United States
Received by NPGS:
01 Mar 2011
Form Received:
Corm
Life Form:
Tree
Life Habit:
Tree
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don
Top Name:
Giant Variegated Elephant Ear
Origin:
Collected – Puerto Rico, United States
Received by NPGS:
01 Mar 2011
Form Received:
Corm
Life Form:
Tree
Life Habit:
Tree
Source History
Collected
01 March 2011.
Puerto Rico, United States
Comment: From Leonardo Flores, Bo. Rio Canas Arriba, Mayaguez
Accession Names and Identifiers
Giant Variegated Elephant Ear
Type: Local name

TARS 18183
Type: Site identifier
Group: MISC.TARS

Narrative
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don
Genus:
Alocasia
Family:
Araceae
Subfamily:
Aroideae
Tribe:
Colocasieae
Nomen number:

2492
Place of publication:

R. Sweet, Hort. brit. ed. 3:631. 1839 "macrorhizon" (H. W. Schott, Melet. 18. 1832, nom. inval. "macrorhiza")
Comment:
Schott did not validly publish this in 1832 because the genus Alocasia was first published in a suppressed work (1790) and was not validly published until 1837 (Shenzhen ICN Art. 35.1)
Verified:
05/26/2023 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Arum macrorrhizon L.

Autonym(s)
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don var. macrorrhizos

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Alocasia indica (Lour.) Spach
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don var. rubra (Hassk.) Furtado
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don var. variegata (K. Koch & C. D. Bouché) Furtado
Alocasia variegata K. Koch & C. D. Bouché
Arum indicum Lour.
Colocasia indica (Lour.) Kunth
Colocasia indica (Lour.) Kunth var. indica
Colocasia indica (Lour.) Kunth var. rubra Hassk.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishape  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Englishcunjevoi  1Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
Englishgiant alocasia  1Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Englishgiant taro  1Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Englishpai  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Frenchalocasie  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanAlokasie  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Germanriesenblättriges Pfeilblatt  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1193.
Indiamankachu  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)inhame-açú  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)orelha-de-elefante-gigante  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)taiá-Rio-Branco  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)taioba  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Spanishmalanga  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedishalokasia  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Annotations
  • The Taxonomic Name Of The Accession When It Was Received: 03 Nov 2011, from Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don var. variegata (K. Koch & C. D. Bouché) Furtado to Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don
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