Dioscoreaceae
Batflower
Tacca leontopetaloides
- Family
- Dioscoreaceae
- Genus
- Tacca
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Common names
By language (22)
- arz
- اروروت البولينيزيه
- Chinese
- 蒟蒻薯
- Czech
- Taka protisečná
- dag
- Bugu
- Dutch
- Duivelstong
- English
- Batflower, Arrowroot, Fiji arrowroot, Masoa, Polynesian arrowroot, Taka
- ff
- Duɓɓi waandu
- Finnish
- Liuskaviiksikki
- French
- Arrow-root de Tahiti
- German
- Ostindische Pfeilwurz
- Indonesian
- Taka
- Japanese
- タシロイモ
- Javanese
- Kecondang
- Korean
- 타카
- mad
- Oto'o
- Malay
- Lukih
- Māori
- Pia
- Polish
- Krąpiel pierzastodzielna
- Russian
- Такка перистонадрезанная
- Thai
- เท้ายายม่อม
- Tongan
- Māhoaʻa
- ty
- Pia
Synonyms
- Arisaema gracile (Roxb.) Kunth
- Arum gracile Roxb.
- Chaitaea tacca Sol. ex Seem.
- Chaitea tacca Solander ex Parkinson
- Leontice leontopetaloides L.
- Tacca abyssinica Hochst. ex Baker
- Tacca artocarpifolia Seem.
- Tacca brownii Seem.
- Tacca brownii var. paeoniifolia Limpr.
- Tacca dubia Schult. & Schult.f.
- Tacca gaogao Blanco
- Tacca guineensis G.Don ex Loudon
- Tacca hawaiiensis H.Limpr.
- Tacca involucrata Schumach. & Thonn.
- Tacca involucrata var. acutifolia (H.Limpr.) H.Limpr.
- Tacca maculata Zipp. ex Span.
- Tacca madagascariensis Bojer
- Tacca madagascariensis (H.Limpr.) H.Limpr.
- Tacca oceanica Seem.
- Tacca phallifera Rumph. ex E.A.Duchesne
- Tacca pinnatifida J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
- Tacca pinnatifida f. obtusata Limpr.
- Tacca pinnatifida subsp. eupinnatifida H.Limpr.
- Tacca pinnatifida subsp. interrupta Warb. ex H.Limpr.
- Tacca pinnatifida subsp. involucrata (Schumach. & Thonn.) H.Limpr.
- Tacca pinnatifida subsp. madagascariensis H.Limpr.
- Tacca pinnatifida subsp. minor H.Limpr.
- Tacca pinnatifida var. acutifolia H.Limpr.
- Tacca pinnatifida var. brownii (Seem.) F.M.Bailey
- Tacca pinnatifida var. obtusata H.Limpr.
- Tacca pinnatifida var. paeoniifolia Domin
- Tacca pinnatifida var. permagna Domin
- Tacca pinnatifolia Gaertn.
- Tacca quanzensis Welw.
- Tacca umbrarum Jum. & H.Perrier
- Tacca viridis Hemsl.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Hawaii: introduced, Pacific Basin: native
Photos
Photo: Marco Schmidt [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ton Rulkens from Mozambique, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ton Rulkens from Mozambique, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ton Rulkens from Mozambique, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ton Rulkens from Mozambique, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ton Rulkens from Mozambique, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Craig Franklin, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Craig Franklin, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.