Colocasia esculenta / [Species detail] / Plant Atlas

Classification

Monocots

Family

ARACEAE

Genus

Colocasia

Species

Colocasia esculenta (L.)Schott

Common Name

WILD TARO; DASHEEN; COCO YAM

Growth Habit

C Value

Plant Notes

Status

Not Native FACW (NWPL) FISC(I) OBL (DEP)

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Supraordinal

Order

ALISMATALES

Family

Genus

Species

Colocasia esculenta (L.)Schott - WILD TARO; DASHEEN; COCO YAM

COLOCASIA ESCULENTA (Linnaeus) Schott, in Schott & Endlicher, Melet. Bot. 18. 1832.

Basionym

Arum esculentum Linnaeus 1753.

Type

JAMAICA: (lectotype: Sloane, Voy. Jamaica Nat. Hist. 2: t. 106(1). 1725). Lectotypified by Nicolson, in A. C. Smith, Fl. Vit. Nov. 1: 456. 1979.

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