Tacca

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Read about Tacca in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

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. CH


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