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Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don

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Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don (1839)
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don

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Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
Political Region
Subtropicals 1(4): 34
Exotic
Casual
Pacific
World Geographic Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions

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G.Don
L.
(L.) G.Don
1839
macrorhizon
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species
Alocasia macrorrhizos

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macrorrhizos

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Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don

Large robust plants with thick fleshy rhizome; sap milky. Stem thick, in mature plants trunk-like, to 5 m × 30 cm, with leaf scars, lower part often lying along ground. Leaves large; laminae ovate-sagittate, cuspidate, to 75 × 50 cm, erect, entire, leathery, deep shining green, or green with white patches, veins prominent below, margins often ± undulate, basal lobes obtuse, rounded; petioles to 1.2 m long, lower half sheathing, light green with brown or purple speckles. Spathe with basal cylindric pale green tube c. 7 cm long, limb expanded, boat-shaped, bluish-green to yellowish, to 15 cm long; peduncle terete, to 20 cm long. Spadix fragrant, ± = spathe; basal female zone to 3 cm long, narrower sterile zone 3.5 cm long, upper male zone 5-6 cm long, terminal appendage 5-6 cm long, thick, obtuse, light creamy-yellow to orange. Berry scarlet or orange, glossy, ± 1 cm diam., 1-4-seeded.

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Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Alocasia macrorrhiza (L.) G.Don
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don

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Exotic
Recorded in error
New Zealand
Political Region
Recorded as [S.] macrorrhiza; Subtropicals 1(4): 34

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Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Cook Islands
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Cook Islands
Penrhyn
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Cook Islands
Rarotonga
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Cook Islands
Suwarrow
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
French Polynesia
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Micronesia, Federated States Of
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Niue
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Tonga

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04bff833-5f72-4c4d-8e50-8f8704804b1b
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Names_Plants
12 December 2002
25 November 2022
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