Dioscoreaceae
Tacca

Tacca chantrieri André

First published in Rev. Hort. (Paris) 73: 541 (1901)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Assam to S. China and Peninsula Malaysia. It is a rhizomatous geophyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Ahmed, Z.U. (ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 12: 1-505. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  • Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Hassan, M.A. & Uddin, M.Z. (2007). Tacca plantaginea (Hence) Drenth (Taccaceae) - A new Angiospermic record for Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 14: 71-73.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Ahmed, Z.U. (ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 12: 1-505. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2012 Nguyen, V.D., et al. [HNK-1886] Vietnam K000524331 Yes
Jan 1, 2012 Du, N.V., et al. [HNK2809 A] Vietnam K000524299 Yes
Jan 1, 2012 Nguyen, V.D., et al. [HNK-1502] Vietnam K000524330 Yes
Jan 1, 2012 Nguyen, V.D., et al. [HNK-1622] Vietnam K000524332 Yes
Jan 1, 2012 Nguyen, V.D., et al. [HNK-2058] Vietnam K000524329 Yes
K:SPC-29047.824 No
K:SPC-29047.827 No
s.coll. [s.n.] K:SPC-17061.000 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images