Tacca cristata — The Life Data

Plantae/Tracheophyta/Liliopsida/Dioscoreales/Dioscoreaceae/Tacca

At a glance

Occurrence records111

Data sources3

Biological traits3

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources3 archives

Databases and archives Tacca cristata's data was compiled from.

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility111 records↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources3 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS21 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF111 records

01Narrative

Tacca cristata, la Plante chauve-souris blanche, est une espèce de plantes de la famille des Dioscoreaceae.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesGIFT

Life cycle & reproduction1

Life spanperennial

Habitat & environment2

Growth form detailedherb

Woodinessnon-woody

03Chemical composition21 compounds

Compounds documented for Tacca cristata across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

Compound class profile2 classes

Aminoacids20

Aminoacids $ Dipeptides1

Documented compounds21 total

Compound	Amount	Source
(+)-Valine	present	LOTUS
(2R)-2-azaniumyl-3-phenylpropanoate	present	LOTUS
(2S)-2-(phenylazaniumyl)propanoate	present	LOTUS
(2S)-2-ammonio-3-(1H-imidazol-4-yl)propanoate	present	LOTUS
(2S)-2-ammonio-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propanoate	present	LOTUS
(2S,3S)-2-ammonio-3-methylpentanoate	present	LOTUS
Arginine	present	LOTUS
d,l-Serine	present	LOTUS
D-Alanine	present	LOTUS
D-Aspartic acid	present	LOTUS

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type111 records

Wild obs. + sensor98

Museum / vouchered13

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO156 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy70% within 1 km

≤100 m 33≤1 km 22≤10 km 12>10 km 12

79 georeferenced · 19 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor98

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy50% within 1 km

≤1 km 3≤10 km 3

6 georeferenced · 7 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence13

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions2 of 2 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
South Kensington, GB	7
Bronx, US	6

2 institutions · 13 of 13 vouchered records shown