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Alocasia macrorrhizos G. Don 1839

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK

Description

Arum macrorrhizon Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 965. 1753.

"Habitat in Zeylona." RCN: 6990.

Lectotype (Furtado in Gard. Bull Straits Settlem. 11: 246, 252. 1941): [icon] " Arum Zeylanicum maximum" in Hermann, Parad. Bat.: 73. 1698.

Current name: Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don (Araceae).

Note: For the spelling of the epithet, see Hay & Wise (in Blumea 35: 533. 1991), who also provide illustrations of the Hermann drawing in Herb. Hermann (BM) and the Rumphius plate (f. 14a, b).

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 319, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
G. Don
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Alocasia
Species
macrorrhizos
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Alocasia macrorrhizos Don, 1839 sec. Jarvis, 2007