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The genus Alocasia is in the family Araceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Alocasia

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Alocasia acuminata Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia aequiloba N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia alba Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia arifolia Hallier f.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia atropurpurea Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia augustiana L.Linden & Rodigas	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia balgooyi A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia beccarii Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia boa A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia boyceana A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia brancifolia (Schott) A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia brisbanensis (F.M.Bailey) Domin	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia cadieri Chantrier	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia celebica Engl. ex Koord.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia chaii P.C.Boyce	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia clypeolata A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia cucullata (Lour.) G.Don	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia culionensis Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia cuprea K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia decipiens Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia decumbens Buchet	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia devansayana (L.Linden & Rodigas) Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia fallax Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia flabellifera A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia flemingiana Yuzammi & A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia fornicata (Roxb.) Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia gageana Engl. & K.Krause	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia grata Prain ex Engl. & Krause	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia hainanensis K.Krause	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia hainanica N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia heterophylla (C.Presl) Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia hollrungii Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia hypnosa J.T.Yin, Y.H.Wang & Z.F.Xu	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia hypoleuca P.C.Boyce	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia infernalis P.C.Boyce	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia inornata Hallier f.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia kerinciensis A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia lancifolia Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia lauterbachiana (Engl.) A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia lecomtei Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia longiloba Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia maquilingensis Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia megawatiae Yuzammi & A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia melo A.Hay, P.C.Boyce & K.M.Wong	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia micholitziana Sander	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia miniuscula A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia monticola A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia navicularis (K.Koch & C.D.Bouché) K.Koch & C.D.Bouché	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia nebula A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia nicolsonii A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia nycteris Medecilo, G.C.Yao & Madulid	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia odora (Lindl.) K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia pangeran A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia peltata M.Hotta	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia perakensis Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia portei Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia princeps W.Bull	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia principiculus A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia puber (Hassk.) Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia puteri A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia pyrospatha A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia ramosii A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia reginae N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia reginula A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia reversa N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia ridleyi A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia robusta M.Hotta	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia sanderiana W.Bull	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia sarawakensis M.Hotta	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia scabriuscula N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia scalprum A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia simonsiana A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia sinuata N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia suhirmaniana Yuzammi & A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia venusta A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia wentii Engl. & K.Krause	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia wongii A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Alocasia zebrina Schott ex Van Houtte	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 199 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Alocasia. Of these 79 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 16 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Alocasia. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 199 species names for the genus Alocasia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	79	39.7%
◕	Synonym	95	47.7%
◕	Unplaced	12	6.0%
◕	Unassessed	13	6.5%

All names

The status of the 215 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Alocasia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	79	36.7%
◕	Synonym	111	51.6%
◕	Unplaced	12	5.6%
◕	Unassessed	13	6.0%

Of these names,

• 9 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 199 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Alocasia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	79	81	0	0	160	80.4%
	Medium confidence	0	4	0	0	4	2.0%
	Low confidence	0	10	12	13	35	17.6%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Alocasia, are as follows: