Bat Flowers
Tacca
The genus Tacca, which includes the batflowers and arrowroot, consists of flowering plants in the order Dioscoreales, native to tropical regions of South America, Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia, and various oceanic islands. In older texts, the genus was treated in its own family Taccaceae, but the 2003 APG II system incorporates it into the family Dioscoreaceae. The APG III and APG IV systems continue to include Tacca in Dioscoreaceae.
19 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Polynesian Arrowroot
speciesTacca leontopetaloides
Black bat flower
speciesTacca chantrieri
White Bat Flower
speciesTacca integrifolia
Tacca palmata
speciesTacca palmata
Tacca cristata
speciesTacca cristata
Tacca plantaginea
speciesTacca plantaginea
Tacca palmatifida
speciesTacca palmatifida
Tacca havilandii
speciesTacca havilandii
Tacca borneensis
speciesTacca borneensis
Tacca subflabellata
speciesTacca subflabellata
Tacca maculata
speciesTacca maculata
Tacca reducta
speciesTacca reducta
Tacca bibracteata
speciesTacca bibracteata
Tacca ankaranensis
speciesTacca ankaranensis
Tacca parkeri
speciesTacca parkeri
Tacca khanhhoaensis
speciesTacca khanhhoaensis
Tacca ampliplacenta
speciesTacca ampliplacenta
Tacca celebica
speciesTacca celebica
Tacca ebeltajae
speciesTacca ebeltajae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Tacca in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 81996.