Maranta.—Arrow-Root.
Botanical name:
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: Pereira 1854.
Tacca leontopetaloides (L.) Kuntze.
Engl.: batflower, Tahiti arrowroot.
Sven.: flikig tacca.
Bot. syn.: Tacca involucrata Schum. & Thonn., Tacca oceanica Seem., Tacca pinnatifida Forst. & Forst. f.
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