Genus: Alocasia

140+ Alocasia Varieties

Alocasia is a genus of the family Araceae with 88 accepted species (Kew). They are found in tropical and subtropical parts of Asia and Eastern Australia.

Listed bellow are the varieties that are being cultivated around the world.

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Alocasia acuminata

Described by: Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1859)

Native to: Assam, Bangladesh, China, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam

Alocasia aequiloba

Synonyms: Alocasia angustiloba, Alocasia dahlii, Alocasia denudatoides, Alocasia gjellerupii, Alocasia magnifica

Described by: Nicholas Edward Brown (1895)

Native to: Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea

Alocasia alba

Described by: Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1852)

Native to: Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Sumatera

Hybrids: × Albatuwan, × Lukiwan

Alocasia arifolia

Described by: Hans Hallier

Native to: Borneo, Sumatra

Alocasia azlanii

Described by: Khoon Meng Wong and Peter Charles Boyce (2016)

Native to: Borneo

Alocasia baginda

Trade names: Alocasia Dragon Scale

Described by: Agung Kurniawan and Peter Charles Boyce (2011)

Native to: Borneo

Alocasia baginda

Trade names: Alocasia Silver Dragon

Alocasia beccarii

Described by: Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (1879)

Native to: Borneo

Alocasia boa

Described by: Alistair Hay (1991)

Native to: New Guinea

Alocasia boyceana

Described by: Alistair Hay (1999)

Native to: Philippines

Alocasia brancifolia

Described by: Alistair Hay (1990)

Native to: Maluku, New Guinea

Alocasia brisbanensis

Described by: Karel Domin (1915)

Native to: New South Wales, Queensland

Hybrids: × Tiny Dancers

Alocasia cadieri

Described by: Chantrier (1942)

Native to: Vietnam

Alocasia chaii

Described by: Peter Charles Boyce (2007)

Native to: Borneo

Alocasia clypeolata

Trade names: Alocasia Green Shield

Described by: Alistair Hay (1999)

Native to: Lesser Sunda Is., Philippines

Alocasia cucullata

Trade names: Alocasia Buddha’s Palm

Described by: George Don (1839)

Native to: Assam, Bangladesh, China, Himalaya, Hainan, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Cultivars: ‘Crinkles’, ‘Banana Split’, ‘Moon Landing’, ‘Neon’, ‘Yellow Tail’

Alocasia culionensis

Described by: Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (1905)

Native to: Philippines

Alocasia cuprea

Trade names: Alocasia cuprea Green

Synonyms: Alocasia metallica

Described by: Karl Heinrich Emil Koch (1864)

Native to: Borneo

Hybrids: × Chantrieri, × Sedenii

Alocasia cuprea

Trade names: Alocasia Red Secret

Alocasia farisii

Described by: Zulhazman Hamzah, Salleh Norzielawati and Peter Charles Boyce (2017)

Native to: Malaya

Alocasia fornicata

Described by: Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1854)

Native to: Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam

Alocasia gageana

Trade names: Alocasia California

Described by: Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler and Kurt Krause (1920)

Native to: Myanmar

Cultivars: ‘Albo-Variegata’, ‘Aurea-Variegata’

Hybrids: × Tyrion

Alocasia heterophylla

Synonyms: Alocasia warburgii

Described by: Elmer Drew Merrill (1908)

Native to: Philippines

Cultivars: ‘Corazon Aquino’

Alocasia infernalis

Described by: Peter Charles Boyce (2007)

Native to: Borneo

Alocasia inornata

Described by: Hans Gottfried Hallier (1915)

Native to: Malaya, Sumatera

Alocasia lancifolia

Described by: Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (1912)

Native to: New Guinea

Alocasia lauterbachiana

Described by: Alistair Hay (1990)

Native to: Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea

Alocasia longiloba

Described by: Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1856)

Native to: Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam

Hybrids: × Moresby

Alocasia longiloba

Trade names: Alocasia Denudata, Alocasia longiloba Denudata

Alocasia longiloba

Trade names: Alocasia longiloba Jackrabbit, Alocasia Jackrabbit

Alocasia longiloba

Trade names: Alocasia korthalsii, Alocasia lowii Korthalsii, Alocasia longiloba ‘Korthalsii’

Alocasia longiloba

Trade names: Alocasia longiloba korthalsii complex

Alocasia longiloba

Trade names: Alocasia lowi, Alocasia longiloba Lowii

Hybrids: × Sedenii

Alocasia longiloba

Trade names: Alocasia lowi Argyreia, Alocasia longiloba Lowii Argyreia

Alocasia longiloba

Trade names: Alocasia lowii Grandis, Alocasia longiloba Grandis, Alocasia Grandis

Alocasia longiloba

Trade names: Alocasia lowii var vetichii, Alocasia longiloba Lowii Vetichii

Alocasia longiloba

Trade names: Alocasia Mackling, Alocasia longiloba Mackling

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Alocasia longiloba

Trade names: Alocasia magnifica, Alocasia longiloba Magnifica

Alocasia longiloba

Trade names: Alocasia watsoniana, Alocasia longiloba Watsoniana

Hybrids: × Amazonica

Alocasia macrorrhizos

Described by: George Don (1839)

Native to: Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sulawesi

Cultivars: ‘Black Mac’, ‘Black Stem’, ‘Black Stem Variegata’, ‘Borneo Giant’, ‘Flying Squid’, ‘New Guinea Gold’, ‘Plumbea’, ‘Plumbea Nigra’, ‘Plumbea Metallica’, ‘Stingray’, ‘Variegata’

Alocasia macrorrhizos

Trade names: Alocasia macrorrhizos var. lutea, Alocasia lutea

Alocasia micholitziana

Described by: Sander (1912)

Native to: Philippines

Cultivars: ‘Maxkowskii’, ‘Frydek’, ‘Velvet Elvis’

Hybrids: × Golden Bone, × Moresby

Alocasia melo

Trade names: Alocasia melo, Alocasia rugosa, Alocasia Rhinoskin

Described by: Alistair Hay, Peter Charles Boyce and Khoon Meng Wong (1997)

Native to: Borneo

Hybrids: × Maharani

Alocasia navicularis

Described by: Karl Heinrich Emil Koch, Carl David Bouché (1855)

Native to: Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam

Alocasia nebula

Described by: Alistair Hay (2000)

Native to: Borneo

Alocasia nycteris

Trade names: Alocasia nycteris, Alocasia advincula, Batwing Alocasia

Described by: Melanie P. Medecilo, George C. Yao and Domingo A. Madulid (2007)

Native to: Philippines

Alocasia odora

Described by: Édouard Spach (1846)

Native to: Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Cultivars: ‘Okinawa Silver’

Hybrids: × Borneo King, × Imperial Red, × Portora, × Regal Shields, × Tiny Dancers

Alocasia perakensis

Described by: William Botting Hemsley (1887)

Native to: Malaya, Thailand

Alocasia portei

Trade names: Malaysian Monster

Described by: Schott (1862)

Native to: Philippines

Hybrids: × Portora, × Tyrion

Alocasia princeps

Described by: William Bull (1889)

Native to: Borneo

Cultivars: ‘Purple Cloak’

Alocasia principiculus

Described by: Alistair Hay (1998)

Native to: Borneo

Alocasia puncakborneoensis

Trade names: Alocasia Puncak Borneensis

Described by: Wong Sin Yeng, Peter C. Boyce (2020)

Native to: Sarawak, Borneo

Alocasia reginae

Trade names: Alocasia Miri, Alocasia Princess Miri

Synonyms: Alocasia regina

Described by: N.E. Brown (1884)

Native to: Borneo

Cultivars: ‘Elaine’

Alocasia reginae

Trade names: Alocasia Miri Dark

Alocasia reginula

Trade names: Alocasia Black Velvet

Described by: Alistair Hay (1998)

Native to: Borneo

Hybrids: × Maharani, × Regal Shields

Alocasia reversa

Described by: Nicholas Edward Brown (1890)

Native to: Borneo

Alocasia robusta

Described by: Mitsuru Hotta (1967)

Native to: Borneo

Alocasia sanderiana

Described by: William Bull (1894)

Native to: Philippines

Cultivars: ‘Noblis’ / ‘Nobilis’

Hybrids: × Amazonica, × Chantrieri

Alocasia scabriuscula

Described by: Nicholas Edward Brown (1879)

Native to: Borneo

Alocasia scalprum

Described by: Alistair Hay (1999)

Native to: Philippines

Alocasia sinuata

Trade names: Alocasia Quilted Dreams, Alocasia Hawaii

Described by: Nicholas Edward Brown (1885)

Native to: Philippines

Hybrids: × Golden Bone, × Lukiwan

Alocasia suhirmaniana

Described by: Yuzammi and Alistair Hay (1998)

Native to: Sulawesi

Alocasia venusta

Described by: Alistair Hay (1998)

Native to: Borneo

Alocasia wongii

Described by: Alistair Hay (1998)

Native to: Borneo

Alocasia zebrina

Described by: Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1863)

Native to: Philippines

Cultivars: ‘Black’, ‘Variegata’

Alocasia × Albatuwan

Trade names: Alocasia Albatuwan

Alocasia alba × undescribed species

Alocasia × Amazonica

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Amazonica’, Alocasia amazonica

Inventor: Salvador Mauro

Alocasia sanderiana × Alocasia longiloba (Watsoniana)

Cultivars: ‘Poly

Alocasia × Architexture

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Architexture’

Alocasia × Aurora

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Pink Dragon’, Alocasia ‘Purple Nights’

Alocasia ‘Bambino Arrow’

Cultivar of Alocasia ‘Poly’

Alocasia × Borneo King

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Borneo King’

Alocasia macrorrhizos ‘Borneo Giant’ × Alocasia odora

Alocasia × Calidora

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Calidora’

Alocasia × Calidora ‘Albo-Variegata’

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Calidora’ variegata

Alocasia × Calidora ‘Aurea-Variegata’

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Calidora’ variegata

Alocasia × Chantrieri

Trade names: Alocasia chantrieri

Possibly Alocasia cuprea × Alocasia sanderiana

Alocasia cucullata ‘Banana Split’

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Banana Split’

Alocasia cucullata ‘Crinkles’

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Crinkles’, Alocasia ‘Krinkles’, Alocasia ‘Crispim’

Alocasia cucullata ‘Moon Landing’

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Moon Landing’

Alocasia cucullata ‘Neon’

Trade names: Alocasia cucullata ‘Neon’

Alocasia cucullata ‘Yellow Tail’

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Yellow Tail’

Alocasia ‘Curly Bambino’

Cultivar of Alocasia ‘Poly’

Alocasia × Dark Star

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Dark Star’

Inventor: LariAnn Garner

Patent: USPP29870P2

Alocasia × Ebony

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Ebony’

Inventor: Marian Osiecki

Alocasia gageana ‘Albo-Variegata’

Trade names: Alocasia gageana variegated, Alocasia gageana ‘Variegata’

Alocasia gageana ‘Aurea-Variegata’

Trade names: Alocasia gageana variegated, Alocasia gageana ‘Variegata’

Alocasia × Golden Bone

Trade names: Alocasia Golden Bone

Alocasia micholitziana × Alocasia sinuata

Alocasia heterophylla ‘Corazon Aquino’

Trade names: Alocasia Corazon, Alocasia Corazon Aquino

Alocasia × Imperial Red

Trade names: Alocasia Imperial Red

Inventor: LariAnn Garner

Alocasia odora × unknown Alocasia macrorrhizos hybrid

Alocasia × Ivory Coast

Trade names: Alocasia Ivory Coast, Alocasia ALO1

Inventor: Marian Osiecki

Patent: USPP25804P2

Alocasia × Kuching Mask

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Kuching Mask’

Inventor: Brian Williams

Patent: USPP31784P2

Alocasia longloba × odora × Alocasia macrorrhiza ‘Borneo Giant’

Alocasia ‘Low Rider’

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Low Rider’

Compact form of Alocasia × ‘Portora’

Alocasia × Lukiwan

Trade names: Alocasia Lukiwan

Possibly Alocasia sinuata × Alocasia alba

Alocasia macrorrhizos ‘Black Mac’

Trade names: Alocasia Black Mac

Alocasia macrorrhizos ‘Black Stem’

Trade names: Alocasia Black Stem, Alocasia Black Petiole

Alocasia macrorrhizos ‘Black Stem Variegata’

Trade names: Alocasia Black Stem, Alocasia Black Petiole Variegata

Alocasia macrorrhizos ‘Borneo Giant’

Trade names: Alocasia Borneo Giant

Hybrids: × Borneo King, × Kuching Mask

Alocasia macrorrhizos ‘Flying Squid’

Trade names: Alocasia Flying Squid, Alocasia plumbea Flying Squid

Alocasia macrorrhizos ‘New Guinea Gold’

Trade names: Alocasia New Guinea Gold

Alocasia macrorrhizos ‘Plumbea’

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Plumbea’

Alocasia macrorrhizos ‘Plumbea Metallica’

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Plumbea Metallica’, Alocasia ‘Metallica’

Alocasia macrorrhizos ‘Plumbea Nigra’

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Plumbea Nigra’

Alocasia macrorrhizos ‘Shock Treatment’

Trade names: Alocasia Shock Treatment, Alocasia Shockwave

Alocasia macrorrhizos ‘Stingray’

Trade names: Alocasia Stingray

Alocasia macrorrhizos ‘Variegata’

Trade names: Alocasia macrorrhizos Variegata, Alocasia macrorrhizos variegated

Alocasia × Maharani

Trade names: Alocasia Maharani

Alocasia melo × Alocasia reginula

Alocasia ‘Mandalay’

Inventor: Ty Richard Strode

Patent: USPP25310P3

Described as naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of Alocasia ‘Poly’

Alocasia × Mark Campbell

Trade names: Alocasia Mark Campbell

Alocasia longiloba (lowii complex) × Alocasia sanderiana ‘Nobilis’

Alocasia × Metalhead

Trade names: Alocasia Metal Head, Alocasia Metalhead

Alocasia micholitziana ‘Maxkowskii’

Trade names: Alocasia Frydek, Alocasia Green Velvet

Alocasia micholitziana ‘Frydek’

Trade names: Alocasia Frydek variegated, Alocasia Frydek Variegata

Alocasia micholitziana ‘Velvet Elvis’

Trade names: Alocasia Velvet Elvis

Alocasia × Moresby

Trade names: Alocasia Moresby

Alocasia micholitziana × Alocasia longiloba

Alocasia × Morroco

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Morroco’, Alocasia ‘ALO3’

Inventor: Marian Osiecki

Patent: USPP25803P2

Alocasia odora ‘Okinawa Silver’

Trade names: Alocasia Okinawa Silver, Alocasia odora variegated

Alocasia ‘Poly’

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Poly’, Alocasia amazonica

Cultivar of Alocasia × Amazonica

Cultivars: ‘Bambino Arrow’, ‘Curly Bambino’, ‘Mandalay’

Alocasia × Portora

Trade names: Alocasia Portora, Alocasia Portodora

Alocasia odora × Alocasia portei

Cultivars: ‘Albo-Variegata’, ‘Aurea-Variegata’

Hybrids: × Sumo

Alocasia × Portora ‘Albo-Variegata’

Trade names: Alocasia portora Albo-Variegata, Alocasia portora variegata

Alocasia × Portora ‘Aurea-Variegata’

Trade names: Alocasia portora Aurea-Variegata, Alocasia portora variegata

Alocasia princeps ‘Purple Cloak’

Trade names: Alocasia Purple Cloak

Hybrids: × Sumo

Alocasia × Purpley

Trade names: Alocasia Purpley

Inventor: William Rotolante

Alocasia × Regal Shields

Trade names: Alocasia Regal Shields

Inventor: LariAnn Garner

Alocasia odora × Alocasia reginula

Cultivars: ‘Variegata’

Alocasia × Regal Shields ‘Variegata’

Trade names: Alocasia Regal Shields Variegata, Alocasia Regal Shields variegated

Alocasia reginae ‘Elaine’

Trade names: Alocasia Elaine

Alocasia sanderiana ‘Noblis’ / ‘Nobilis’

Trade names: Alocasia sanderiana Nobilis, Alocasia Nobilis, Alocasia Noblis

Alocasia × Sedenii

Trade names: Alocasia Sedenii

Inventor: Veitch Nurseries (1869)

Named after John Seden (Veitch Nurseries employee)

Alocasia longiloba (Lowii) × Alocasia cuprea

Alocasia × Serendipity

Trade names: Alocasia Serendipity

Alocasia × Sumo

Trade names: Alocasia Sumo

Inventor: Veitch Nurseries (1869)

Alocasia princeps “Purple Cloak” × Alocasia × ‘Portora’

Alocasia × Tiny Dancers

Trade names: Alocasia Tiny Dancer, Alocasia Tiny Dancers

Inventor: LariAnn Garner

Patent: USPP26607P2

Alocasia brisbanensis × Alocasia odora

Alocasia ‘Triangularis’

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Triangularis’

Alocasia × Tyrion

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Tyrion’

Inventor: LariAnn Garner

Alocasia portei × Alocasia gageana

Alocasia × Upright Mayan Mask

Trade names: Alocasia ‘Mayan Mask’, Alocasia ‘William’s Hybrid’

Inventor: Brian Williams

Patent: PP24391

Alocasia zebrina ‘Black’

Trade names: Alocasia zebrina Black, Alocasia zebrina Black Stem

Alocasia zebrina ‘Variegata’

Trade names: Alocasia zebrina Variegata, Alocasia zebrina variegated

Alocasia Antoro Velvet

Trade names: Alocasia Antoro Velvet, Alocasia Antoro, Alocasia sp Sulawesi

Native to: Borneo

Likely a new undescribed species found on Borneo island

Alocasia Bisma

Trade names: Alocasia bisma, Alocasia Bisma

Likely a new undescribed species

Alocasia Jacklyn

Trade names: Alocasia Jacklyn, Alocasia sp Sulawesi, Alocasia tandurusa, Alocasia tandu rusa

Native to: Sulawesi, Indonesia

Likely a new undescribed species found on Sulawesi island

Alocasia Karpet

Trade names: Alocasia Karpet, Alocasia sp Sulawesi

Likely a new undescribed species found on Sulawesi island

Alocasia Loco

Trade names: Alocasia Loco

Alocasia Pseudosanderiana

Trade names: Alocasia pseudosanderiana

Native to: Philippines

Possibly a naturally-occurring hybrid

Alocasia Reticulata

Trade names: Alocasia Reticulata, Alocasia zebrina Reticulata

Likely a new undescribed species or mutation of Alocasia zebrina

Alocasia Sabrina

Trade names: Alocasia Sabrina, Alocasia sp Sulawesi

Native to: Sulawesi, Indonesia

Alocasia Sarian

Trade names: Alocasia Sarian

Native to: Philippines

Named after agriculture journalist Zacarias Sarian

Possibly a variety of Alocasia micholitziana, Alocasia micholitziana × Alocasia zebrina, or new undescribed species

Alocasia Tigrina

Trade names: Alocasia Tigrina

Possibly a unknown hybrid or undescribed species

Alocasia Tigrina Superba

Trade names: Alocasia Tigrina Superba

Possibly a cultivar of Alocasia zebrina, unknown hybrid or undescribed species

Alocasia Wentii

Trade names: Alocasia wentii

According to Alistair Hay, plant sold as Alocasia wentii is a horticultural hybrid, different from a plant with botanical name Alocasia wentii which is not in cultivation

Cultivars: ‘Variegata’

Alocasia Wentii Variegata

Trade names: Alocasia wentii variegata’, Alocasia wentii Silver Splash, Alocasia Aline

Alocasia Yucatan Princess

Trade names: Alocasia Yucatan Princess

Special thank you to Krešimir Hodalić, Lau Kai Yang, Ahmad, members of Planet Alocasia – Colocasia – Xanthosoma and Araceae Enthusiasts Facebook groups and everyone else who contributed in any shape and form

Changelog

May 15th 2021:
– Alocasia macrorrhizos ‘Black Stem Variegata’ added.
– Alocasia zebrina ‘Black’ added.
– Alocasia Mark Campbell photo added.
– Alocasia Karpet photo added.
– Alocasia longiloba (Jackrabbit) photo added.
– Alocasia puncakborneoensis photo added.
May 14th 2021:
– article is published.

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