Biology:Tacca maculata
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Dioscoreales |
| Family: | Dioscoreaceae |
| Genus: | Tacca |
| Species: | T. maculata
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| Binomial name | |
| Tacca maculata Seem.
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Tacca maculata is a plant in the Dioscoreaceae family, native to Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Fiji and Samoa[1]
It was first described by Berthold Carl Seemann in 1866.[2][3]
Description
Tacca maculata has few leaves on petioles up to 1.9 m long, and (usually greater than 1 m long).[4] The leaf lamina start trisected but then become irregularly dissected. The scape of the inflorescence is up to 2 m long.[4] There are three or four involucral bracts and they are lanceolate to ovate.[4] There are 20 to 40 flowers on pedicels which are up to 5 cm long.[4] The sepals and petals are similar, and green on the outside, maroon on the inside.[4] The style is about 2 mm long and has three glandular patches at the base.[4] The fruit is rounded and topped with a persistent perianth.
Habitat
T. maculata usually grows in well-drained lateritic soils.[4]
References
- ↑ "Tacca maculata Seem. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:827912-1.
- ↑ "Tacca maculata". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/65604.
- ↑ Seemann, B.C. (1866). Flora Vitiensis. 3. pp. 103.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 H.J.Hewson (2020), "Tacca maculata", Flora of Australia (Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment), https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Tacca%20maculata, retrieved 23 July 2021
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q9353987 entry
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