Alocasia macrorrhizos
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Family Araceae
Taxonomy: Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Alocasia indicum (Lour.) Spach (taxonomic synonym)
- Alocasia macrorhizon G.Don (orthographic variant)
- Alocasia macrorrhiza G.Don (orthographic variant)
- Arum indicum Lour. (taxonomic synonym)
- Arum macrorrhizon L. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (9), Hughes_1992 (4), Kew_2019_5 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 24 records in 7 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
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
- petiole_length (numerical): 100 cm (100-100 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_margin_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Hughes_1992; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): arborescent (1); decumbent (1); erect (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Hughes_1992; Kew_2019_5]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnny (1) [sources: Hughes_1992]
- storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: Hughes_1992]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 9 | 9 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Hughes_1992 | 4 | 4 | L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | A. 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. |
| ABRS_2022 | 3 | 3 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_5 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |