Tacca chantrieriAndré

black bat flowercat's whiskersdevil flower

WFO wfo-0000567593 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tacca chantrieri, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. a Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-04-30 / obs. 123970367
Tacca chantrieri, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 105738628
Tacca chantrieri, photographed by Shawn O'Donnell
fig. c Shawn O'Donnell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57586316
Tacca chantrieri, photographed by lovelymon lamin
fig. d lovelymon lamin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 55422117
Tacca chantrieri, photographed by Eugene Popov
fig. e Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 46878077
Tacca chantrieri, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. f Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28502843
Tacca chantrieri, photographed by Rejoice Gassah
fig. g Rejoice Gassah, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29863985
Tacca chantrieri, photographed by Daniel Ellehammer Larsen
fig. h Daniel Ellehammer Larsen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80259083

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Tacca chantrieri is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Tibet, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTibetAssamBangladeshCambodiaLaosMalayaMyanmarThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Tacca chantrieri, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Cambodia CBD
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Tibet CHT

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Clerodendrum esquirolii H.Lév.
  • Schizocapsa breviscapa (Ostenf.) H.Limpr.
  • Schizocapsa itagakii Yamam.
  • Tacca esquirolii (H.Lév.) Rehder
  • Tacca garrettii Craib
  • Tacca lancifolia var. breviscapa Ostenf.
  • Tacca macrantha H.Limpr.
  • Tacca minor Ridl.
  • Tacca paxiana H.Limpr.
  • Tacca roxburghii H.Limpr.
  • Tacca vespertilio Ridl.
  • Tacca wilsonii H.Limpr.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.