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Tacca chantrieri is a species of flowering plant in the yam family Dioscoreaceae. It was first described in 1901 by Édouard André. [1] T. chantrieri is native to southeastern Asia. It is commonly known as the black bat flower due to its shape and coloring. [2]
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. [1]
Tacca leontopetaloides is a species of flowering plant in the yam family Dioscoreaceae. It is native to the islands of Southeast Asia . Austronesian peoples introduced it as a canoe plant throughout the Indo-Pacific tropics during prehistoric times.
Tacca integrifolia, also known as the white batflower or the black lily, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Dioscoreaceae. It is native to tropical and subtropical rainforests in hilly regions of South Asia, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina , the Malay Peninsula , Sumatra , Java and eastern China.
The rounded figs are 1 to 1.5 cm long and start out yellow, maturing to orange-red between May and February in the species' native range. These are edible but tasteless. [ 179 ] [ 174 ] [ 180 ] [ 181 ] Although rarely seen in cultivation, it is a fast growing ornamental species.
A species range map represents the region where individuals of a species can be found. This is a range map of Juniperus communis, the common juniper.. Species distribution, or species dispersion, [1] is the manner in which a biological taxon is spatially arranged. [2]
The first taccalonolide was isolated in 1963 from the tubers of Tacca leontopetaloides when researchers were exploring the "bitter principle" of the plant. [4] Named taccalin, the bitter, light yellow powder and its hypothesized properties would help build the infrastructure for the elucidation of the structure of taccaolonolides 24 years later.
Tacca palmata is a plant in the Dioscoreaceae family, native to Borneo, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Thailand, and Vietnam. [ 1 ] It was first described by Carl Ludwig Blume in 1827.