Alocasia cucullata (Lour.) G.Don

Small to medium sized, somewhat robust, evergreen, clumping herb to 1 m. Stems erect, hypogeal, basally much–branched. Leaves many together; petiole weakly D-shaped in cross-section, 25–30(–80) cm; petiolar sheath reaching to ca ½ way, margins membranous; leaf blade broadly ovate-cordate, 10–40 × 7–28 cm, apex acute, base shallowly cordate; primary veins 4 on each side, radiating from petiole, arching; interprimary veins not forming a collecting vein; secondary veins rather obscure. Inflorescences rarely produced, usually solitary, sometimes paired, among the leaf bases, subtended by membranous cataphylls; peduncle 20–30 cm; spathe 9–15 cm long, green; lower spathe 4–8 × ca 2.5 cm; spathe limb narrowly cymbiform, 5–10 × 3–5 cm; spadix 8–14 cm; pistillate flower zone cylindrical, 1.5–2.5 cm × 7 mm; sterile interstice 2–3 cm × 3 mm. staminate flower zone 34 × 8 mm, yellow; appendix narrowly conical ca 35 × 5 mm, yellowish; fruit rarely produced, a subglobose berry, 6–8 mm diam., ripening red.