• Family : ARACEAE
  (Arum Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : OAL FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ARACEAE
• Basionym : Arum macrorrhizon L.
• Synonym(s) : Alocasia indica (Lour.) Spach; Arum indicum Lour.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don
• Common name : Giant taro
• Vernacular name : Marsanige, Mundi gedde (Kannada); Aanachemubu, Aasamchembu, Chembu, Eezhachembu, Marenchembu, Pazhchembu (Malayalam); Manna, Makanda (Hindi); Chara-kanda (Telugu)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : In moist places close to water courses
• Comments / notes : Usually cultivated for its stem which is used as vegetable. Flowers rarely
• Flower, Fruit : July-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Satara district
  • Odisha : Sambalpur district
• World Distribution : Malesia to Australasia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : B.D. Sharma et al., 1996. Flora of Maharashtra state: Monocolydens. BSI; Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3; http://e-monocot.org; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014- Flora of South Kanara.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Alocasia macrorrhizos. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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