Tacca maculata
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|taxon = Tacca maculata
|authority = Seem.
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Tacca maculata is a plant in the Dioscoreaceae family, native to Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Fiji and Samoa{{Cite web|title=Tacca maculata Seem. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science|url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:827912-1|access-date=2021-06-12|website=Plants of the World Online|language=en}}
It was first described by Berthold Carl Seemann in 1866.{{APNI2|id=65604|name=Tacca maculata}}{{cite book|author=Seemann, B.C.|date=1866|title= Flora Vitiensis|volume= 3|pages= 103}}
Description
Tacca maculata has few leaves on petioles up to 1.9 m long, and (usually greater than 1 m long). The leaf lamina start trisected but then become irregularly dissected. The scape of the inflorescence is up to 2 m long. There are three or four involucral bracts and they are lanceolate to ovate. There are 20 to 40 flowers on pedicels which are up to 5 cm long. The sepals and petals are similar, and green on the outside, maroon on the inside. The style is about 2 mm long and has three glandular patches at the base. The fruit is rounded and topped with a persistent perianth.
Habitat
T. maculata usually grows in well-drained lateritic soils.{{citation|author=H.J.Hewson |date=2020|title= Tacca maculata|journal= Flora of Australia|publisher= Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment|location= Canberra|url= https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Tacca%20maculata|accessdate=23 July 2021}}
References
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External links
- [https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?taxa=Tacca+maculata#tab_mapView Tacca maculata occurrence data] from the Australasian Virtual Herbarium
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Category:Flora of Western Australia
Category:Flora of the Northern Territory