Alocasia puncakborneensis S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce belongs to the Alocasia princeps Complex, and is distinguished from all described species of the complex by the brilliant green leaf blades with the tertiary veins forming a prominently raised fine reticulum on the adaxial surface. It is a smaller-growing herb (up to 55 cm tall).
The specific epithet is from the Type locality plus the suffix -ensis, indicating ‘from’. Puncak (summit of a mountain in the Malay language) is pronounced pun-CHAK, with emphasis on the second syllable.
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 puncakborneensis
Alocasia puncakborneensiscomes is ca. 25 cm tall and comes in a ⌀ 14 cm pot
