Alocasia fornicata
A medium-sized, rhizomatous Alocasia from the Indian subcontinent and Indochina, reaching about 60–90 cm with broad, triangular leaves on slightly pink petioles and spreading by stolons. In north-east India its inflorescence is cooked as a seasonal vegetable. It is a plant of moist, shaded, monsoon lowlands that grows hard in the wet season and may slow or partly die back in the dry season.
Where it grows wild
A terrestrial herb of damp, shaded ground: forest edges, ravines, stream banks and wet disturbed places in monsoon lowlands and foothills. Specific habitat notes for this species were thin in the sources consulted; this description follows its range and growth form.
Only one GBIF record carries an elevation (400 m). It is mainly a lowland to foothill plant; an upper limit was not found.
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