Tacca palmata |
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- Authors:
- Mansueto, Josel B, Sia,Isidro C, de la Pena, Mario
- Title:
- Documentation of Philippine Traditional Knowledge and Practices on Health and Development of Traditional Knowledge Digital Library on Health - FOLK HEALING PRACTICES of SIQUIJOR ISLAND
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- Family:
- Dioscoreaceae
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- Geographic area:
- Siquijor Province, Siquijor, Barangay Cantabon
- Habitat:
- Primary forest
- Latitude /longitude:
- Altitude:
- 397 m
- Habit:
- A perennial herb
- Height:
- 0.3 to 0.5 meter height
- Roots:
- Rootstock is tuberous, ovoid, small, 2 to 4 centimeters in diameter. Petiole is slender, 20 to 30 centimeters long.
- Stem:
- Leaves:
- Leaves are pedately 5- to 7-partite, 15 to 20 centimeters in diameter, thin; segments are oblong to elliptic-oblong, entire, acuminate, the lower two on each side more united than the others.
- Inflouresence & flowers:
- Flowers are umbellate, pedicelled, purple and green, about 8 millimeters long, the involucre usually of four leaves, the outer two broadly ovate, acuminate, nearly sessile, and 3 to 6 centimeters long; the inner two with constricted bases, petioled.
- Fruits:
- Fruit is subglobose, fleshy, red, and about 1 centimeter long.
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- Abstracted by:
- Ando, JKA
- Date abstracted:
- 07/06/2015
- Province:
- Siquijor