Botanical Family · Dioscoreales
Taccaceae
Batflower Family
1 speciesOrder Dioscoreales1+ well-known plants
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.
Notable members
All 1 species in TACCACEAE
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