Alocasia longilobaMiq.

WFO wfo-0000949355 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Alocasia longiloba, photographed by Иван Ковтун Ivan Kovtun
fig. a Иван Ковтун Ivan Kovtun, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-28 / obs. 170554145
Alocasia longiloba, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. b Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61052814
Alocasia longiloba, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. c Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61052815
Alocasia longiloba, photographed by Иван Ковтун Ivan Kovtun
fig. d Иван Ковтун Ivan Kovtun, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170554148
Alocasia longiloba, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. e Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173032120

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000291553
Filed as
Alocasia longiloba Miq.
Det. by
Hay, A.
Collected
Anonymous
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Alocasia longiloba is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanBorneoCambodiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMyanmarSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Alocasia longiloba, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 237 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 15.6 °C 23.1 °C 24.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.0 °C 29.5 °C 31.9 °C
Annual rainfall 1,951 mm 2,703 mm 4,587 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 119 mm 503 mm 811 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 237 research-grade observations of Alocasia longiloba that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 34 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alocasia amabilis W.Bull
  • Alocasia argyrea Mast.
  • Alocasia argyrea Sander
  • Alocasia cochinchensis Pierre ex Engl. & K.Krause
  • Alocasia cochinchinensis Pierre ex Engl. & K.Krause
  • Alocasia curtisii N.E.Br.
  • Alocasia cuspidata Engl.
  • Alocasia denudata Engl.
  • Alocasia denudata var. elongata Engl.
  • Alocasia eminens N.E.Br.
  • Alocasia gibba André
  • Alocasia gigantea Jacob-Makoy
  • Alocasia grandis Clemenc.
  • Alocasia intermedia H.Laurentius
  • Alocasia korthalsii Schott
  • Alocasia leoniae Engl. & K.Krause
  • Alocasia longifolia Engl. & K.Krause
  • Alocasia lowii Hook.f.
  • Alocasia lowii var. grandis (Clemenc.) G.Nicholson
  • Alocasia lowii var. picta Hook.f.
  • Alocasia lowii var. reticulata W.Bull
  • Alocasia lowii var. veitchii (Lindl.) Engl.
  • Alocasia luciani Pucci ex Rodigas
  • Alocasia pucciana André

and 10 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.