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: - APC [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

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