Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don, 1839

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

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Arum macrorrhizon Linnaeus View in CoL , 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 View in CoL View at ENA ( 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).