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Details for: TARS 18183,
Alocasia macrorrhizos
(L.) G. Don, Giant Variegated Elephant Ear
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Alocasia macrorrhizos
(L.) G. Don
Top Name:
Giant Variegated Elephant Ear
Origin:
Collected – Puerto Rico, United States
Maintained:
Tropical Agriculture Research Station
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
Maintained:
Tropical Agriculture Research Station
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
")
Protologue link:
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044103115382?urlappend=%3Bseq=655%3Bownerid=27021597764420501-657
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
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
ape
1
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
English
cunjevoi
1
Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
English
giant alocasia
1
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English
giant taro
1
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English
pai
1
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
French
alocasie
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German
Alokasie
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German
riesenblättriges Pfeilblatt
2
Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1193.
India
mankachu
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)
inhame-açú
2
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)
orelha-de-elefante-gigante
2
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)
taiá-Rio-Branco
2
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)
taioba
2
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Spanish
malanga
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish
alokasia
2
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012.
Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Name
References
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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