Taccaceae
Batflower Family
The Taccaceae family (Batflower Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Dioscoreales. It is represented by a single species in the SASYA catalogue. That species is a herb.
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Broad, often deeply lobed leaves rising directly from an underground tuber; bizarre, dark purple-black flowers are surrounded by wide, wing-like bracts and trail long whisker-like filaments well below the bloom, giving the flower cluster a bat-like silhouette.
The long, drooping, thread-like bracts trailing beneath the bloom, sometimes reaching well over 20 cm, have earned the genus the common name bat flower for its unmistakable silhouette.
To check whether a plant belongs to Taccaceae, compare the leaf arrangement, leaf type, flower symmetry, fruit type, and one distinctive marker together. A single feature can mislead; the family pattern is the combination.
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Families that can look similar
Dioscoreaceae
Compare against Dioscoreaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare DioscoreaceaeBurmanniaceae
Compare against Burmanniaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare BurmanniaceaeAll 1 species in TACCACEAE
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