Alocasia nycteris 'Batwing' is a cultivar of Alocasia nycteris Medecilo, G.C.Yao & Madulid. It is a very characteristic aroid, still relatively rare in collections. It is a terrestrial herb, which can grow up to 1.5 m tall; its petiole is green with blackish-green streaks, blades are hastate to sagittate, coriaceous, dark glossy green adaxially, paler green abaxially, membranous when undulated to subpinnatifid along margin.
The specific epithet 'nycteris' alludes to the bat-shaped leaves genus of African and Asiatic bats comprising the hollow-faced bats.
Genus name comes form the Greek words a meaning without and Colocasia the name of a closely allied genus, form which it was separated.
Alocasia nycteris 'Batwing'
Alocasia nycteris 'Batwing' comes in following sizes:
S - is ca. 15 cm tall and comes in a ⌀ 10.5 cm pot
M - is ca. 20 cm tall and comes in a ⌀ 12 cm pot
