TaccaceaeW/C = Wild Collected |
Tacca integrifolia Ker Gawl.
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- Common Name: white bat flower
- Family: Taccaceae Dumort.
- Country of Origin: peninsular Malaysia
- Habitat: forests and mountain slopes around 800m
- Description: Rhizomes subcylindric, thick. Leaf blade oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 50--55 × 18.5--21 cm, base cuneate, apex acuminate, sometimes caudate. Scape ca. 55 cm; involucral bracts 4, outer 2 sessile, narrowly deltoid-ovate, inner 2 long petiolate, spatulate, thin. Perianth purplish black; tube 1--2 cm; lobes 6, in 2 whorls, outer ones narrowly oblong, inner ones broadly obovate. Filaments spatulate at apex. Style extremely short; stigma deeply 3-lobed. Berry narrowly ellipsoid, 4--5 × ca. 2 cm, fleshy, 6-ridged, with persistent perianth lobes. Seeds irregulaly ellipsoid-ovoid. Fl. Jul--Aug.
Forests, mountain slopes; 800--900 m. SE Xizang (Mędog Xian) [Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, E India, Indonesia, Laos, W Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam].
- Culture: warm temps with good air circulation, filtered light, well drained organic soils with consistently even moisture - does not like dry or wet soils.
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    Accession Data:- Accession # 200700119
- Source: Joan Leonard - OSU
- Provenance: Originally recieved as Tacca chantrieri from Joan Leonard at OSU. First flowering in July 2007 shows a white bloom, consultation with Joan concurs hers also white - original seed from Banana Tree apparently mislabelled. Based upon foliage characteristics and unopened flower (Jul 1 2008) relabelling this Tacca integrifolia, perhaps needing further refinement when fully opened. CMORSE
- Accession Date: 08-14-2007
- Bench: 1208 - AUS:Indo-Burma B
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 10-27-2009
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: monocots
- Order: Dioscoreales
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- Family: Taccaceae
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References:
- Botany Photo of the Day at UBC
- Flora of China
- Predicting mating patterns from pollination syndromes: the case of "sapromyiophily" in Tacca chantrieri (Taccaceae); American Journal of Botany. 2005;92:517-524.
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