Details for: PI 16773, Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don

Origin:

Collected – Sri Lanka

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

11 Dec 1905

PI Assigned:

1903

Inventory Volume:

11
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Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don

Origin:

Collected – Sri Lanka

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

11 Dec 1905

PI Assigned:

1903

Source History

Collected

Sri Lanka

Collector(s):

Mueller, Fred, Missouri Botanical Gardens

Accession Names and Identifiers

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	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)

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