Tacca maculata

Tacca maculata is a plant in the Dioscoreaceae family, native to Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Fiji and Samoa^[1]

Tacca maculata
in Mirima National Park
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Dioscoreales
Family:	Dioscoreaceae
Genus:	Tacca
Species:	T. maculata
Binomial name
Tacca maculata Seem.

Mirima National Park

It was first described by Berthold Carl Seemann in 1866.^[2][3]

Description

Tacca maculata has few leaves on petioles up to 1.9 m long, and (usually greater than 1 m long).^[4] The leaf lamina start trisected but then become irregularly dissected. The scape of the inflorescence is up to 2 m long.^[4] There are three or four involucral bracts and they are lanceolate to ovate.^[4] There are 20 to 40 flowers on pedicels which are up to 5 cm long.^[4] The sepals and petals are similar, and green on the outside, maroon on the inside.^[4] The style is about 2 mm long and has three glandular patches at the base.^[4] The fruit is rounded and topped with a persistent perianth.

Habitat

T. maculata usually grows in well-drained lateritic soils.^[4]