755.000 Colocasia Schott

Description of the genus

Robust herbs with large tuber. Leaves peltate, cordate-sagittate; lamina simple. Plant flowering with leaves. Spathe with a short green ellipsoid basal tube (which is not strongly inflated) and much longer yellow to orange apex. Spadix shorter than spathe with a conical naked sterile appendix. Flowers unisexual.

Worldwide: 8 species in tropical Asia; C. esculenta widely cultivated throughout the tropics

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
esculenta (L.) SchottMS (other?)Description, Image

Other sources of information about Colocasia:

Our websites:

Flora of Malawi: Colocasia
Flora of Malawi: cultivated Colocasia
Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Colocasia
Flora of Zambia: Colocasia
Flora of Zambia: cultivated Colocasia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Colocasia
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Colocasia

External websites:

ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Colocasia
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Colocasia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Colocasia
Wikipedia: Colocasia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Colocasia
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Colocasia

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Colocasia.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=303, retrieved 21 March 2023

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