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Tacca leontopetaloides (L.) Kuntze , Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 704 1891. (Chaitaea tacca Sol. ex Seem.; Chaitea tacca Solander ex Parkinson; Leontice leontopetaloides L.; Tacca abyssinica Hochst. ex Baker; Tacca artocarpifolia Seem.; Tacca browni var. paeoniifolia Limpr.; Tacca brownii Seem.; Tacca dubia Schult. & Schult.f.; Tacca gaogao Blanco; Tacca guineensis G. Don ex Loudon; Tacca hawaiiensis H.Limpr.; Tacca involucrata Schumach. & Thonn. .; Tacca maculata Zipp. ex Span. [Invalid]; Tacca madagascariensis Bojer; Tacca madagascariensis (H.Limpr.) H.Limpr.; Tacca oceanica Seem.; Tacca phallifera Schult. & Schult.f.; Tacca pinnatifida J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. …….; Tacca pinnatifolia Gaertn.; Tacca quanzensis Welw.; Tacca umbrarum Jum. & H.Perrier; Tacca viridis Hemsl.);
TAK-kah — from the Malayan name for this plant … Dave’s Botanary commonly known as: African arrowroot, batflower, East Indian arrowroot, Fiji arrowroot, Hawaiian arrowroot, Polynesian arrowroot, Tahiti arrowroot • Assamese: কেতুৰী keturi • Gujarati: જોગી બાદશાહ jogi badshah, કાચિંડાનો વેલો kachindano velo • Hindi: बाघ मूंछ bagh-moochh, देवकन्द devkanda • Kannada: ದೈವಕಂದ daeva kaanda, ಹಂದಿಗೆಡ್ಡೆ handigedde, ಸೂರಣಗಡ್ಡೆ suranagadde • Konkani: देवकंद devakamdo, कोळ्याचो माड kolyacho mad, सरडेचो माड sardecho mad, ಸೂರ್ಣು surnu • Malayalam: കാട്ടുചേന kattuchena • Marathi: देवकंद devakanda, जटाशंकर jatashankar, पेणघागरा penghagara, तवकीराच झाड towkiracha jhad • Odia: ଧୋଇ dhoi • Sanskrit: देवकन्द devakanda, सूर्ण surna • Tamil: சேனை cenai, ககனம் kakanam, காறாக்கருணை kara-k-karunai, காட்டுக்கருணை kattu-k-karuna • Telugu: అడవిదుంప adavi dumpa, కంద kanda, పెద్ద కంద గడ్డ pedda kanda gadda, రిత్త కంద ritta kanda • Tulu: ಕಾಟ್ಟುಕೇನೆ kattukene
ID please: Last month visited Dapoli (Ratnagiri dist. Maharashtra). Observed two very common fruitings. For ID please They are the fruit of Tacca leontopetaloides & a sp. of Arisaema [possibly A.neglectum].
looks like two different sp, first one is Tacca sp. may be leontopetaloides
Yes the first photo is of Tacca leontopetaloides. the second one is of Arisaema sp. hard to confirm species without the photos of leaves and flowers.
Today I checked the Google and found species Arisaema consanguineum close to what I had seen. Hope it is the same.
I don’t disbelieve your identification you can be very true in all aspect.
Yes .. Fruit of Arisaema dracontium also looks close to the pics for id. This is Tacca leontopetaloides (-718) buds and fruit (-720) – I think both are same species. Tacca leontopetaloides, leaf @ SGNP : Tacca leontopetaloides, leaf @ SGNP
Read in conjunction with thread =
https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/cd… These are mine.
taca species fot id mm1 20 08 2011: While we are on the topic of Taca
I thought this was a good time to id this one as well My neighbour’s place in alibaug had these growing wild they were photographed in end july Affirmative … This is Dev-kanda [Tacca leontopetaloides].
Name of the species: Tacca leontopetaloides
Family: Taccaceae
Place of collection: Ranpur, Nayagarh, Orissa
Altitude: 340 m above msl
Habit: Herb
Habitat: Moist deciduous to semi-evergreen forests
Uses: A critically dependent medicinal plant used as am ingredient in preparing several other medicines.
Interesting plant.. yes, the whiskers above the drooping fruits look like persistent flower part… have seen it in some clerodendrons and some other houseplants, cant remember all the names, as I come across, may These are fruits Yes these are fruits are the tubers edible? they just look like potato. we collected this also from Rayagada 🙂 Really I did not Know that you have already visited Rayagada. Yes the tubers are edible in Ranpur, but only for medicinal purposes. The tubers are one of the key ingradient in preparing many herbal medicines. I think this information may clear your doubts …. finally I could ‘locate’ the pictures of tubers. These pictures were taken by Dr. Ravikumar (FRLHT) during our visit to Rayagada in 2005. aaaah! thank you … i had been reading something about famine foods in the tropics… and I think this plant was included … so … I wanted to know if it would be really something that a hungry person (weak from famine) be willing to dig… Are these fruits of some Araceae? They are the fruit of Tacca leontopetaloides. Please check this link : Google Groups
Amorphophallus sylvaticus (Roxb.) Kunth : 9 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (3)
Amorphophallus sylvaticus (Roxb.) Kunth, wild herb from the out skirts of Chennai. I am seeing this herb first time.
Identity needs to be confirmed. Tacca leontopetaloides, I think. Yes, … It looks like Tacca leontopetaloides…. Marathi name of Tacca leontopetalaoides : 5 posts by 3 authors.
A name penghagara is given to Tacca leontopetaloides by the Banjara tribes of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra.
Reference: Ethnopharmacology of Banjara tribe of Umarkhed taluka, district Yavatmal, Maharashtra for reproductive disorders by Bhogaonkar P Y & Kadam VN I hope पेणघागरा is written correctly. Please validate. https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/marathi/penaghagara-penghagara Thanks …, But not sure of the reason you have put the links.
First link takes us to my post to the group listing all the names of Tacca leontopetaloides; and the second link leads to a page in the site Names of Plants in India – which I am building.
Names of Plants in India :: Tacca leontopetaloides (L.) Kuntze : 7 posts by 3 authors. 1 image.
via Species > T > Tacca leontopetaloides (L.) Kuntze … family: Dioscoreaceae ~ Taccaceae
    TAK-kah — from the Malayan name for this plant … Dave’s Botanary lee-on-toh-pet-al-OY-deez — resembles lion’s-petals … Dave’s Botanary commonly known as: African arrowroot, batflower, East Indian arrowroot, Fiji arrowroot, Hawaiian arrowroot, Polynesian arrowroot, Tahiti arrowroot • Assamese: কেতুৰী keturi • Hindi: बाघ मूंछ bagh-moochh, देवकन्द devkanda • Kannada: ದೈವಕಂದ daeva kaanda, ಹಂದಿಗೆಡ್ಡೆ handigedde, ಸೂರಣಗಡ್ಡೆ suranagadde • Konkani: देवकंद devakamdo, कोळ्याचो माड kolyacho mad, सरडेचो माड sardecho mad, ಸೂರ್ಣು surnu • Malayalam: കാട്ടുചേന kattuchena • Marathi: देवकंद devakanda, जटाशंकर jatashankar, पेणघागरा penghagara, तवकीराच झाड towkiracha jhad • Odia: ଧୋଇ dhoi • Sanskrit: देवकन्द devakanda, सूर्ण surna • Tamil: சேனை cenai, ககனம் kakanam, காறாக்கருணை kara-k-karunai, காட்டுக்கருணை kattu-k-karuna • Telugu: అడవిదుంప adavi dumpa, కంద kanda, పెద్ద కంద గడ్డ pedda kanda gadda, రిత్త కంద ritta kanda • Tulu: ಕಾಟ್ಟುಕೇನೆ kattukene botanical names: Tacca leontopetaloides (L.) Kuntze … synonyms: Leontice leontopetaloides L. • Tacca pinnatifida J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. … status at The Plants List (2013). Version 1.1. July 5, 2008 … along Saphale Ghat Gujarati name of Tacca leontopetaloides : 10 posts by 3 authors.
Please help me with the name kanchinda no velo in native script. Tacca leontopetaloides yields starch, thus part of first word of the name would be કાંજી kanji (and I do not think it would be કાંચી going by the first transcribed word kanchi***). The last words: નો વેલો meaning creeping / climbing plant of. References:
Jogi badshah Thanks very much Naren ji for the name jogi badshah જોગી બાદશાહ … must be a local name, not much popular – I could not find any instance on internet of this name jogi badshah OR જોગી બાદશાહ relating to Tacca. Though in some parts of Maharashtra, this plant is known in a similar fashion – जटाशंकर jatashankar … the long thread-like bracteoles, inflorescence, leaves, all together giving an allusion of Lord Shiva’s head with matted hair … Lord Shiva is indeed King of Yogis … thus the name is fitting. કાચિંડાનો વેલો
Thanks very very much Bhasker ji for the name કાચિંડાનો વેલો kachindano velo… literal meaning – chameleon’s creeper / climber. The Konkanis and Malwanis too relate this plant to chameleon; they call the plant as सरडेचो माड sardecho mad … literal meaning – chameleon’s palm (tree). It is called Polynesian arrowroot, or Fiji arrowroot,
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