Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Araceae Juss.
Alocasia (G.Don , nom. cons. , scientific
Don, G. (ed.) in Sweet, R. (1839) , Sweet's Hortus Britannicus Edn. 3
631
[comb. et stat. nov.]
basionym:
Colocasia sect. Alocasia Schott legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (13 May 1889) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 4
7
[taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of:
Colocasia Schott nom. cons.
Bailey, F.M. (1902) , The Queensland Flora 5
1697
[secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains
452
[secondary reference]
Evans, O.D. (1962) , Araceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 22
10-11
[secondary reference]
Nicholson, D.H. (1963) , Nomina conservanda proposita. Taxon 12(5)
208-209
[secondary reference]
Text:
"If Alocasia is to be retained in its familiar and long-accepted sense of a tropical Asiatic genus, then Alocasia (Schott) G. Don (1830) must be conserved, since it is a later homonym of Alocasia Raf. (1837), which is a synonym of Arisaema Mart. (1831)."
McVaugh, R. (1967) , Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: Conservation of Generic names, VII. Taxon 16
227
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"752. Alocasia (Schott) G. Don (1839) vs. Alocasia Raf. (1837) (10-2) ... The Committee recommends conservation."
Stafleu, F.A. (1978) , International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Leningrad, 1975. Regnum Vegetabile 97
306
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales
8
[secondary reference]
Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988) , International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118
169
[secondary reference]
Type:
Alocasia cucullata (Lour.) G.Don, typ. cons.
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Araceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3
272
[secondary reference]
Hay, A. & Wise, R. (1991) , The genus Alocasia (Araceae) in Australasia. Blumea 35(2)
499-545
[secondary reference]
Hay, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Araceae. Flora of New South Wales 4
33
[secondary reference]
Mayo, S.J., Bogner, J. & Boyce, P.C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998) , Araceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4
71
[secondary reference]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004) , Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest
58
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006) , Australian Plant Census
-
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Colocasia sect. Alocasia Schott legitimate
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), Qld, NSW
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008) , Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3
30-31
[secondary reference]
Hay, A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011) , Araceae. Flora of Australia 39
265-266
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Colocasia sect. Alocasia Schott legitimate
