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Tacca leontopetaloides (Tacca)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Tacca leontopetaloides is a species of flowering plant in the yam family Dioscoreaceae, that is native to tropical Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, northern Australia, New Guinea, Samoa, Micronesia, and Fiji. As an important food source, it was intentionally taken to tropical Pacific Islands with early human migrations. Common names include Polynesian arrowroot, pia (Hawaii, French Polynesia, Niue, and Cook Islands), masoa (Samoa), mahoaŹ»a (Tonga), yabia (Fiji) gapgap (Guam) and taka (Indonesia).
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Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [1]  Herb

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Gombe National Park II 8799 Tanzania
Kakadu National Park II 4744348 Northern Territory, Australia
Mahale Mountains National Park II 398414 Tanzania
Purnululu National Park II 604999 Western Australia, Australia

Predators

Eulemur fulvus (brown lemur)[3]
Zosterops chloris (Lemon-bellied White-eye)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Fruit-frugivore interactions in a Malagasy littoral forest: a community-wide approach of seed dispersal, An Bollen, UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN 2003
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0