{{Short description|Species of plant}} {{speciesbox |image = Mirima NP WA Tacca Maculata 1st report in this area.jpg |image_caption = in Mirima National Park |taxon = Tacca maculata |authority = Seem. |synonyms = |synonyms_ref=<ref name=powo/> }} [[File:Mirima NP WA Tacca Maculata 1st report in this area (2).jpg|thumb|left| Mirima National Park]] '''''Tacca maculata''''' is a plant in the Dioscoreaceae family, native to Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Fiji and Samoa<ref name="powo">{{Cite web|title=''Tacca maculata'' Seem. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science|url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:827912-1|access-date=2021-06-12|website=Plants of the World Online|language=en}}</ref>
It was first described by Berthold Carl Seemann in 1866.<ref name=apni>{{APNI2|id=65604|name=''Tacca maculata''}}</ref><ref name=seem>{{cite book|author=Seemann, B.C.|date=1866|title= Flora Vitiensis|volume= 3|pages= 103}}</ref>
== Description == ''Tacca maculata'' has few leaves on petioles up to 1.9 m long, and (usually greater than 1 m long).<ref name=":0" /> The leaf lamina start trisected but then become irregularly dissected. The scape of the inflorescence is up to 2 m long.<ref name=":0" /> There are three or four involucral bracts and they are lanceolate to ovate.<ref name=":0" /> There are 20 to 40 flowers on pedicels which are up to 5 cm long.<ref name=":0" /> The sepals and petals are similar, and green on the outside, maroon on the inside.<ref name=":0" /> The style is about 2 mm long and has three glandular patches at the base.<ref name=":0" /> The fruit is rounded and topped with a persistent perianth.
== Habitat == ''T. maculata'' usually grows in well-drained lateritic soils.<ref name=":0">{{citation|author=H.J.Hewson |date=2020|title= ''Tacca maculata''|journal= Flora of Australia|publisher= Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment|location= Canberra|url= https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Tacca%20maculata|accessdate=23 July 2021}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?taxa=Tacca+maculata#tab_mapView ''Tacca maculata'' occurrence data] from the Australasian Virtual Herbarium {{taxonbar|from=Q9353987}} Tacca maculata
Category:Flora of Western Australia Category:Flora of the Northern Territory Category:Flora of Fiji Category:Flora of Samoa Category:Taxa named by Berthold Carl Seemann Category:Plants described in 1866