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Tacca

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Noun1.Tacca - genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowersTacca - genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers
liliid monocot genus - genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils
family Taccaceae, Taccaceae - small family of tropical herbs
Indian arrowroot, pia, Tacca leontopetaloides, Tacca pinnatifida - perennial herb of East Indies to Polynesia and Australia; cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch


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Screening of Sudanese plants for molluscicidal activity and identification of leaves of Tacca leontopetaloides (L) O KTZE (Tuccaceae) as a potential new exploitable resource.
and S Julia 2006 A review of entire-leaved Tacca (Dioscoridaceae) in Sarawak, Borneo.
 
 
 
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