Tacca maculata
in Mirima National Park
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Dioscoreales
Family: Dioscoreaceae
Genus: Tacca
Species:
T. maculata
Binomial name
Tacca maculata
Mirima National Park

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

  1. ↑ "Tacca maculata Seem. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  2. ↑ "Tacca maculata". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  3. ↑ Seemann, B.C. (1866). Flora Vitiensis. Vol. 3. p. 103.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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
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