# Tacca maculata

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{{Short description|Species of plant}}
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|image = Mirima NP WA Tacca Maculata 1st report in this area.jpg
|image_caption = in [Mirima National Park](/source/Mirima_National_Park)
|taxon = Tacca maculata
|authority = [Seem.](/source/Berthold_Carl_Seemann)
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[[File:Mirima NP WA Tacca Maculata 1st report in this area (2).jpg|thumb|left| [Mirima National Park](/source/Mirima_National_Park)]]
'''''Tacca maculata''''' is a plant in the [Dioscoreaceae](/source/Dioscoreaceae) family, native to [Western Australia](/source/Western_Australia), the [Northern Territory](/source/Northern_Territory), [Fiji](/source/Fiji) and [Samoa](/source/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](/source/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==
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==External links==
*[https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?taxa=Tacca+maculata#tab_mapView ''Tacca maculata'' occurrence data] from the [Australasian Virtual Herbarium](/source/Australasian_Virtual_Herbarium)
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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

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