- Family : TACCACEAE
(Batflower Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BAGH-MOOCHH FAMILY (बाघ-मूंछ फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Dioscoreaceae
- Synonym(s) : Ataccia integrifolia (Ker Gawl.) C.Presl; Ataccia aspera (Roxb.) Kunth; Ataccia laevis (Roxb.) Kunth; Ataccia lancifolia (Zoll. & Moritzi) Kunth; Tacca aspera Roxb.; Tacca choudhuriana Deb; Tacca laevis Roxb.; Tacca lancifolia Zoll. & Moritzi; Tacca rafflesiana Jack ex Wall.; Tacca sumatrana H.Limpr.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Tacca integrifolia Ker Gawl.
- Habit : Herb
- Key identification features : Perennial, rhizomatous herbs; Leaves radical, long petioled, elliptic-ovate to oblong; Inflorescence umbel subtended by two pairs of spathacious involucral bracts, glabrous or puberulous; Flowers greenish-white to greenish-yellow or chocolate-brown to violet with purple veins; Fruits oblong, fimbriate, strongly 6-ribbed.
- Flower, Fruit : February-November
- Distribution :
- Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit, Siang, Subansiri, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 187
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Tacca integrifolia. Downloaded on 4 October 2024.
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