Alocasia cucullata
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.
N.E. India (Sikkim) and south as far as Sri Lanka and through Thailand and Indochina (Vietnam, type) to Taiwan and China.
Only found in association with human disturbance, 0–900 m asl.
In China all parts are used externally for treatment of snake bites, abscesses, rheumatism and arthritis.