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Alocasia longiloba Miq.

Araceae

Climate known 65 photographs Tropical foliage plant
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Summary

Alocasia longiloba is a species of flowering plant in the family Araceae. It is the namesake of a species complex. The complex has a widespread distribution; Guangdong, Hainan, and southern Yunnan in China, mainland Southeast Asia, and western and central Malesia.

Text from Wikipedia, “Alocasia longiloba”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Alocasia

Alocasia is a genus of rhizomatous or tuberous, broad-leaved, perennial, flowering plants from the family Araceae. There are about 90 accepted species native to tropical and subtropical Asia and eastern Australia. Around the world, many growers widely cultivate a range of hybrids and cultivars as ornamentals.

Text from Wikipedia, “Alocasia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Araceae
Described by
Miq.
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast +11
Wild records
294 in range· 117 open

At a glance

Warmest month
30°C
Apr, mean day; nights 23 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
2904mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Nov 312 mm (CHELSA)
Light
28–35DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Grouped as a tropical foliage plant by the genus Alocasia, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (August to January and April to May at the habitat (not shifted)). Habitat rain 2904 mm a year, wettest November at 312 mm, driest February at 167 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 28 to 35 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 21.1 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Alocasia amabilis W.Bull; Alocasia argyrea Mast.; Alocasia argyrea Sander; Alocasia cochinchensis Pierre; Alocasia cochinchensis Pierre ex Engl. & K.Krause and 34 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant by the genus Alocasia, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table supplies one figure for this group, a conventional minimum for the cold floor, and no prose.

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (August to January and April to May at the habitat (not shifted)).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (2114 mm of 2904 mm) takes 8 months, August to January and April to May. Mean temperature moves 1.3 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere, within 10° of the equator; with no thermal season there there is no season to reverse, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 2904 mm a year, wettest November at 312 mm, driest February at 167 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

2904 mm a year at the habitat, 2114 mm of it August to January and April to May. Wettest month November at 312 mm, driest February at 167 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 2144 mm to 4344 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 28 to 35 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 28 to 35 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 25, the highest 90th-percentile month 40).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 21.1 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 21.1 °C, the absolute minimum 17.9 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 32.7 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 22.4 °C in January (across the envelope cells 16.9 °C to 24.6 °C), warmest day 29.8 °C in April (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 21.1 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER); the archetype table's minimum for a tropical foliage plant, 12 °C, is lower and does not raise it.

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence, and the archetype table's group minimum where that is higher. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 67 to 69% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 28 °C in Dec to 30 °C in Apr; mean night from 22 °C in Jan to 23 °C in May. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 2904 mm of rain a year, most in Nov. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 190 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was 17.9 °C and the 99th-percentile day 32.7 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.15°20°25°30°35°32.7° 99th-percentile day (undated)17.9° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500600mm rainDLI 28–35RH 67–69 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 190 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C28 / 24–3029 / 25–3130 / 26–3130 / 27–3130 / 27–3129 / 27–3129 / 27–3129 / 27–3129 / 26–3129 / 26–3028 / 25–3028 / 24–29
Night °C22 / 17–2523 / 17–2523 / 19–2623 / 19–2623 / 20–2623 / 20–2623 / 19–2623 / 19–2623 / 19–2523 / 19–2523 / 18–2523 / 17–25
Rain mm228 / 28–502167 / 28–365212 / 77–386232 / 122–388245 / 172–367202 / 135–305209 / 128–330219 / 140–332266 / 147–415307 / 190–401312 / 133–447305 / 39–476
DLI30 / 27–3533 / 30–3835 / 30–4035 / 30–3933 / 30–3632 / 29–3532 / 29–3534 / 30–3633 / 29–3732 / 28–3429 / 26–3228 / 25–32
RH %68 / 60–7267 / 60–7167 / 61–7167 / 64–7168 / 65–7167 / 64–7167 / 64–7067 / 63–7168 / 64–7268 / 65–7169 / 64–7269 / 61–73

Each figure is the median across the 190 grid cells holding the 273 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1696:5936 (5.175, 116.825). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 17.9 °C, 1st-percentile night 21.1 °C, 99th-percentile day 32.7 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 190 distinct grid cells holding the 273 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1696:5936 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 5.00_116.875, lapse-corrected -314 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 115 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Sulawesi, Sumatera
Kew's description“subshrub” · “wet tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker1.354, 103.777 · in the densest population, 138 records (47% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 294 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 117 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 933 km away. 27 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 21 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 294 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) Caleb Catto, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Adrien Jailloux, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) insect ID, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Alocasia longiloba, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

The deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation
Patrick Roberts, Chris Hunt, Manuel Arroyo‐Kalin, Damian Evans (2017) · Nature Plants
A systematic review of anti-cancer roles and mechanisms of kaempferol as a natural compound
Elham Amjad, Babak Sokouti, Solmaz Asnaashari (2022) · Cancer Cell International
Medicinal Plants with Anti-Leukemic Effects: A Review
Tahani Maher, Raha Ahmad Raus, Djabir Daddiouaissa, Farah B. Ahmad (2021) · Molecules
Biotechnological Approaches to Producing Natural Antioxidants: Anti-Ageing and Skin Longevity Prospects
Sarah Bouzroud, Ezzouhra El Maaiden, Mansour Sobeh, Nawal Merghoub (2023) · International Journal of Molecular Sciences
LC–TOF-MS/MS and GC-MS based phytochemical profiling and evaluation of wound healing activity of Oroxylum Indicum (L.) Kurz (Beka)
Ferid Abdulhafiz, Mohd Farhan Hanif Reduan, Anwar Hazim Hisam, Ibtihal Mohammad (2022) · Frontiers in Pharmacology
Traditional Uses, Phytochemistry and Biological Activities of Alocasia Species: A Systematic Review
Dаyаr Аrbаin, Lorenskia Maria Regina Sinaga, Muhammad Taher, Deny Susanti Darnis (2022) · Frontiers in Pharmacology
Antioxidant, Anti-Cancer Activity and Phytochemicals Profiling of Kigelia pinnata Fruits
Khaled M. A. Ramadan, Hossam S. El‐Beltagi, Heba I. Mohamed, Tarek Shalaby (2022) · Separations

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Alocasia 5 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 28 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.