Colocasieae

{{Short description|Subfamily of flowering plants}}

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| photo1b = Colocasia fallax 1zz.jpg

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| photo2b = Alocasia augustiana ies.jpg

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| photo3b = Alocasia x amazonica a2.jpg

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| image_caption = Diversity of Colocasieae

| taxon = Colocasieae

| authority = Bremer

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

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Colocasieae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Araceae.

This tribe of plants is notable for including various large-leafed, ornamental, and sometimes edible plants, the edible ones mostly being harvested for their corms.{{Cite web |title=Elephant Ears (Colocasia, Alocasia, and Xanthosoma) |url=https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/elephant-ears-colocasia-alocasia-and-xanthosoma/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=Wisconsin Horticulture |language=en-US}}

Genera

  1. Alocasia - Subtropical Asia and eastern Australia{{Cite web |title=Alocasia (Schott) G.Don {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1078078-2 |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}
  2. Colocasia - SE Asia and Indian subcontinent, some species have been naturalized in other tropical and subtropical regions.{{Cite book |last=Wagner, W. L. |title=Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i. Revised edition. Vol. 2 |last2=D. R. Herbst |last3=S. H. Sohmer |publisher=University of Hawaiʻi Press/Bishop Museum Press |year=1999 |page=1357 |name-list-style=amp}}{{Cite web |title=Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}
  3. Leucocasia - Vietnam, Japan and Indian subcontinent{{cn|date=July 2024}}

References

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Category:Aroideae

Category:Monocot tribes