Alocasia

Summary

Alocasia is a taxon^[1]. Alocasia ranks in the top 0.67% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,832 views/month, #1,307 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• Alocasia's instance of is recorded as taxon^[3].
• Alocasia is classified at the rank of genus^[4].
• Alocasia belongs to the parent taxon Colocasieae^[5].
• Alocasia's scientific name is Alocasia^[6].
• Alocasia's Commons category is recorded as Alocasia^[7].
• Alocasia's has basionym is recorded as Colocasia sect. Alocasia^[8].
• Alocasia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Alocasia^[9].
• Alocasia's Commons gallery is recorded as Alocasia^[10].
• Alocasia's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[11].
• Alocasia's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 13(2)^[12].
• Alocasia's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=438^[13].
• Alocasia is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'taro'}^[14].
• Alocasia is commonly known as {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '海芋属'}^[15].
• Alocasia is commonly known as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '海芋属'}^[16].
• Alocasia's has fruit type is recorded as berry^[17].
• Alocasia's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL is recorded as https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/hawaiianflora/genusdescr.cfm?genus=Alocasia^[18].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Alocasia is Alocasia^[6]. Alocasia is classified at the rank of genus^[4]. Alocasia belongs to the parent taxon Colocasieae^[5]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'taro'}^[14], {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '海芋属'}^[15], and {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '海芋属'}^[16].

Identifiers

Alocasia's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 69234^[19]. Alocasia's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 4455^[20]. Alocasia's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 29254^[21]. Alocasia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5329822^[22]. Alocasia's ITIS TSN is recorded as 42556^[23].

Why It Matters

Alocasia ranks in the top 0.67% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,832 views/month, #1,307 of 195,241).^[2] Alocasia has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[24] Alocasia is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[25]