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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]].
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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.
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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.
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Selected species
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*''[[Tacca chantrieri]]'' André - Bat flower
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*''[[Tacca flabellata]]'' J.J.Sm.
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*''[[Tacca integrifolia]]'' Ker Gawl.
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*''[[Tacca leontopetaloides]]'' Kuntze
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*''[[Tacca palmata]]'' Blume
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*''[[Tacca plantaginea]]'' (Hance) Drenth
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In older texts, the genus was treated in its own family '''Taccaceae''', but the 2003 [[APG II system]] incorporates it into the family [[Dioscoreaceae]].
  
 
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File:Tacca chantrieriRHu00.JPG|''Tacca chantrieri''<br>in Thailand
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File:Tacca chantrieriRHu2.JPG|''Tacca chantrieri''<br>fruits
 
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Latest revision as of 16:03, 14 April 2010


White Bat Flower (Tacca integrifolia)


Plant Characteristics
Habit   herbaceous

Lifespan: ⌛ perennial
Cultivation
Features: ✓ flowers, foliage
Flower features: ❀ purple, brown, black
Scientific Names

Dioscoreaceae >

Tacca >


Tacca is a genus of ten species of flowering plants in the order Dioscoreales, native to tropical regions of Africa, Australia, and south-eastern Asia.

Several species are cultivated as ornamental plants for their bold foliage and large flowers.


Read about Tacca in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Tacca (Malayan name). Syn., Ataccia. 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. CH


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Species

Selected species

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

  • Tacca chantrieri
    in Thailand

  • Tacca chantrieri
    close-up of the flower

  • Tacca chantrieri
    fruits

References

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