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Alocasia brisbanensis

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Family Araceae

Taxonomy: Alocasia brisbanensis (F.M.Bailey) Domin

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Alocasia macrorrhizos var. brisbanensis F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Alocasia macrorrhizos var. brisbanensis F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Alocasia macrorrhizos var. variegata Furtado (taxonomic synonym)
  • Caladium glycyrrhizon C.Fraser (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calladium macrorrhizon R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Colocasia macrorrhiza var. brisbanica F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Colocasia macrorrhizos var. brisbanica F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don (misapplied)
  • Caladium macrorrhizon (L.) R.Br. (misapplied)
  • Colocasia macrorrhizos (L.) Schott (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), Qld, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (8), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (14), Fonseca_2000 (4), Grubb_1996 (2), Grubb_2008 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2024 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 63 records in 15 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 10 mm (6-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (6-11 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnny (1); ynnnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2); stem_tuber (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 10 mg (10-10 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.77 m (1-2 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_202388Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_202478N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_255Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Fonseca_200044C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Grubb_200833P. J. Grubb, R. V. Jackson, I. M. Barberis, J. N. Bee, D. A. Coomes, N. J. Dominy, M. A. S. D. L. Fuente, P. W. Lucas, D. J. Metcalfe, J. Svenning, I. M. Turner, and O. Vargas. “Monocot leaves are eaten less than dicot leaves in tropical lowland rain forests: Correlations with toughness and leaf presentation”. Annals of Botany 101 (2008), pp. 1379-1389. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcn047.
WAH_2023_223Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Grubb_199622P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.