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 sub pinnatifid 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