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Tacca leontopetaloides
(Taccaceae)

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Species description or overview

Tacca leontopetaloides information from NTBG
Information about Tacca leontopetaloides is available from the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG).


Taxonomy & nomenclature

GRIN nomenclature info for Tacca leontopetaloides
Nomenclatural information about Tacca leontopetaloides is provided by USDA/ARS/NGRP/GRIN.

ITIS nomenclature info for Tacca leontopetaloides
Nomenclatural information about Tacca leontopetaloides is provided by ITIS.

Tacca leontopetaloides information from the Smithsonian's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Tacca leontopetaloides--including nomenclature and synonymy, and status and distribution in Hawaii--is provided by the "Flora of the Hawaiian Islands" website of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Links from this page include descriptive information about the species, as well as worldwide distributional information and general information about the genus.


Risk assessments

Tacca leontopetaloides weed risk assessment for Hawaii-Pacific
Results of a weed risk assessment for Tacca leontopetaloides for the Hawaii-Pacific region are presented by the Hawaii-Pacific Weed Risk Assessment team.


Images

Images of Tacca leontopetaloides (Taccaceae) (pia, Polynesian arrowroot)
Links to high-resolution free images of Tacca leontopetaloides (Taccaceae) (pia, Polynesian arrowroot) by Forest & Kim Starr (USGS) are available here.


Distribution

Tacca leontopetaloides information from the Smithsonian's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Tacca leontopetaloides--including nomenclature and synonymy, and status and distribution in Hawaii--is provided by the "Flora of the Hawaiian Islands" website of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Links from this page include descriptive information about the species, as well as worldwide distributional information and general information about the genus.


Full-text articles

Alien plant invasions in native ecosystems of Hawaii: Management and research
Stone, Charles P., Clifford W. Smith, and J. Timothy Tunison (eds.) . 1992. Alien plant invasions in native ecosystems of Hawaii: Management and research. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit. ISBN: 0-8248-1474-6.


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