Tacca ankaranensis

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|name = Ankarana arrowroot

|image = Tacca ankaranensis04.JPG

|genus = Tacca

|species = ankaranensis

|authority = Bard.-Vauc.

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Tacca ankaranensis is a species of flowering plant in the yam family Dioscoreaceae, which is endemic to Madagascar.{{cite web|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:995872-1|title=Plants of the World Online|publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|date=2020|access-date=July 29, 2020}} It was discovered on the Ankarana massif in far northern Madagascar.

It was first described in 1997 by Martine Bardot-Vaucoulon.{{citation|author=Bardot-Vaucoulon, M.|title=Observations sur le milieu et la végétation du Massif de l'Ankarana (Nord de Madagascar) et description de trois nouvelles espèces de Chlorophytum (Liliaceae), Tacca (Taccaceae) et Adenia (Passifloraceae)|journal=Adansonia |series=Série 3|volume= 19|pages= 154 |date=1997|url=https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/a1997n1a12.pdf}}