Alocasia longiloba: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Alismatales
- Family
- Araceae
- Genus
- Alocasia
- Species
- Alocasia longiloba
- Scientific Name
- Alocasia longiloba
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Alocasia longiloba
Alocasia longiloba is a species of flowering plant in the family Araceae. It is the namesake of a species complex. The complex has a widespread distribution; Guangdong, Hainan, and southern Yunnan in China, mainland Southeast Asia, and western and central Malesia.
In the houseplant trade, many of the former species that were subsumed into Alocasia longiloba are now considered types or varieties, these include 'argyrea', 'korthalsii', 'lowii', and 'watsoniana'. The placement and validity of such varieties, and of any potential hybrids and cultivars within the complex is unclear, including 'Jackrabbit' and 'Thibautians'. Similarly, a cross of Alocasia lowii with the kris plant Alocasia sanderiana produced Alocasia × mortfontanensis, which may or may not be the same as the well-known hybrid Alocasia × amazonica, the African mask, formed by crossing A. sanderiana and Alocasia watsoniana, with the only certain parent in either cross being A. sanderiana.
...Alocasia longiloba in languages:
- Chinese
- 箭葉蘭嶼姑婆芋
- Chinese
- 大葉觀音蓮
- Japanese
- カブトダコ
- Russian
- Алоказия длиннолопастная
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Alocasia acuminata
- Alocasia aequiloba
- Alocasia alba
- Alocasia amazonica
- Alocasia atropurpurea
- Alocasia azlanii
- Alocasia baginda
- Alocasia balgooyi
- Alocasia beccarii
- Alocasia boa
- Alocasia boyceana
- Alocasia brancifolia
- Alocasia brisbanensis
- Alocasia chaii
- Alocasia clypeolata
- Alocasia cucullata
- Alocasia culionensis
- Alocasia cuprea
- Alocasia devansayana
- Alocasia epilithica
- Alocasia flabellifera
- Alocasia fornicata
- Alocasia gageana
- Alocasia grata
- Alocasia heterophylla
- Alocasia hollrungii
- Alocasia infernalis
- Alocasia jiewhoei
- Alocasia lancifolia
- Alocasia lauterbachiana
- Alocasia lecomtei
- Alocasia longiloba
- Alocasia macrorrhizos
- Alocasia maquilingensis
- Alocasia melo
- Alocasia micholitziana
- Alocasia miniuscula
- Alocasia monticola
- Alocasia navicularis
- Alocasia nicolsonii
- Alocasia nycteris
- Alocasia odora
- Alocasia peltata
- Alocasia portei
- Alocasia princeps
- Alocasia puncakborneensis
- Alocasia pyrospatha
- Alocasia ramosii
- Alocasia reginae
- Alocasia reginula
- Alocasia reversa
- Alocasia robusta
- Alocasia sanderiana
- Alocasia sarawakensis
- Alocasia scabriuscula
- Alocasia scalprum
- Alocasia sinuata
- Alocasia venusta
- Alocasia wentii
- Alocasia wongii
- Alocasia zebrina
- Alocasia × mortfontanensis









































































