| Tacca maculata | |
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| in Mirima National Park | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Dioscoreales |
| Family: | Dioscoreaceae |
| Genus: | Tacca |
| Species: | T. maculata
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| Binomial name | |
| Tacca maculata | |
Tacca maculata is a plant in the Dioscoreaceae family, native to Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Fiji and Samoa1
It was first described by Berthold Carl Seemann in 1866.23
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
References
- "Tacca maculata Seem. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
- "Tacca maculata". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
- Seemann, B.C. (1866). Flora Vitiensis. Vol. 3. p. 103.
- H.J.Hewson (2020), "Tacca maculata", Flora of Australia, Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, retrieved 23 July 2021