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1248.000 Tacca
Description of the genus
Perennial herb with tuberous or creeping rhizome. Leaves radical, entire or deeply lobed. Flowers umbellate, bisexual, actinomorphic; bracts forming an involucre, the outer broad, the inner (in ours) long and thread-like. Perianth: tube short; lobes 6 in two rows. Stamens 6. Ovary inferior, 1-locular; style short, the three stigmas often petaloid and reflexed over the style. Fruit a berry or rarely opening by valves. Seeds numerous. Worldwide: 10 species in the Old World tropics Zambia: 1 taxon. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Provinces | Content |
| leontopetaloides (L.) Kuntze | N,W,C,E,S | E,Lk,S | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Tacca:
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Flora of Burundi: TaccaFlora of the DRC: Tacca
Flora of Malawi: Tacca
Flora of Mozambique: Tacca
Flora of Zimbabwe: Tacca
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): TaccaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Tacca
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Tacca
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Tacca
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Tacca
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Tacca
JSTOR Plant Science: Tacca
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Tacca
Plants of the World Online: Tacca
Tropicos: Tacca
Wikipedia: Tacca
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