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|genus=Tacca
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|image_caption=White Bat Flower (''Tacca integrifolia'')
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''Tacca'' is a genus of ten species of [[flowering plant]]s in the order [[Dioscoreales]], native to tropical regions of [[Africa]], Australia, and south-eastern [[Asia]].
Several species are cultivated as [[ornamental plant]]s for their bold foliage and large flowers.
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Tacca (Malayan name). Syn., Ataccia. Perennial herbs from a tuberous or creeping rhizome, adapted to the warmhouse.
Tacca (Malayan name). Syn., Ataccia. Taccaceae, a family allied to the Dioscorea tribes. Perennial herbs from a tuberous or creeping rhizome, adapted to the warmhouse.
Leaves radical, large, petioled, sometimes undivided and entire, sometimes variously lobed or dissected: fls. at the top of erect leafless scapes in dense umbels, lurid brown or greenish; perianth 6-lobed in 2 rows; stamens 6; ovary inferior, 1-celled: fr. globose, ovoid, turbinate or elongated, usually 3-cornered or 6-ribbed, berry-like and indehiscent, rarely finally 3-valved.—About 13 species in the tropics of both hemispheres. The fl.- cluster is subtended by a few, usually 4, leaf-like or colored bracts, and intermixed with the fls. are more or less numerous, long and conspicuous, sterile, filiform pedicels, which usually droop below the fl.-cluster. Taccaceae contains only one other genus, Schizocapsa.
Leaves radical, large, petioled, sometimes undivided and entire, sometimes variously lobed or dissected: fls. at the top of erect leafless scapes in dense umbels, lurid brown or greenish; perianth 6-lobed in 2 rows; stamens 6; ovary inferior, 1-celled: fr. globose, ovoid, turbinate or elongated, usually 3-cornered or 6-ribbed, berry-like and indehiscent, rarely finally 3-valved.—About 13 species in the tropics of both hemispheres. The fl.- cluster is subtended by a few, usually 4, leaf-like or colored bracts, and intermixed with the fls. are more or less numerous, long and conspicuous, sterile, filiform pedicels, which usually droop below the fl.-cluster. Taccaceae contains only one other genus, Schizocapsa.
==Species==
==Species==
Selected species
*''[[Tacca chantrieri]]'' André - Bat flower
*''[[Tacca flabellata]]'' J.J.Sm.
*''[[Tacca integrifolia]]'' Ker Gawl.
*''[[Tacca leontopetaloides]]'' Kuntze
*''[[Tacca palmata]]'' Blume
*''[[Tacca plantaginea]]'' (Hance) Drenth
In older texts, the genus was treated in its own family '''Taccaceae''', but the 2003 [[APG II system]] incorporates it into the family [[Dioscoreaceae]].
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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File:Tacca chantrieriRHu00.JPG|''Tacca chantrieri''<br>in Thailand
File:Tacca chantrieriRHu02.JPG|''Tacca chantrieri''<br>close-up of the flower
File:Tacca chantrieriRHu2.JPG|''Tacca chantrieri''<br>fruits
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