Alocasia pangeran

Wong, Sin Yeng & Joling, Jyloerica, 2021, Checklist of aroids (Alismatales, Araceae) from Sabah (Malaysian Borneo), Check List 17 (3), pp. 931-974 : 941

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15560/17.3.931
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03954319-FFEB-4E20-72B2-FD4E8451CCB4
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Alocasia pangeran
status

Treatment

Alocasia pangeran View in CoL A.Hay

Figure 2C

Material examined. MALAYSIA – Sandakan • Lahad Datu, Madai Caves, Cult. RBG Sydney, Acc. No. 960509; 400 m elev.; Hay et al. 12175 (isotype SAN) .

Identification. Alocasia pangeran is distinguished from A. princeps W.Bull by its calcicolous lithophytic habit, smaller stature, more slender inflorescence, relatively longer lower spathe and lax interstice. Alocasia pangeran coexists with the terrestrial A. wongii A.Hay and the lithophytic A. puteri A.Hay at Madai Caves ( Hay 1998).

Distribution and ecology. Endemic to Sabah, known only from Madai Caves. In soil and humus pockets on limestone outcrops and boulders in mixed lowland dipterocarp forest at ca. 400 m elev.