A very rarely offered for sale and rare in collections, one of the 'jewel Alocasias', Alocasia chaii P.C.Boyce is a small robust herb with stem shortly erect to decumbent stem, eventually forming a short rhizome. Wild plants have rather few leaves (up to 4, usually less), cultivated plants grow several leaves (up to 7). Petioles are stout, pale green with scattered deep red spots and speckles in the lower half. Leaf; lamina are broadly ovate-elliptic, thickly coriaceous to sub succulent, almost completely peltate, adaxially pale matt grey, abaxially greenish white.
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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 chaii
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