Common name
English: Black Bat Flower
German: Fledermausblume
Mandarin: 箭根薯 (jian gen shu)
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Liliopsida (397)
Order: Dioscoreales (13)
Family: Dioscoreaceae (13)(family description)
Genus: Tacca (2)
Epithet: chantrieri André (1)
Synonym: Schizocapsa breviscapa (Ostenf.) H.Limpr.
breviscapa => having a short scape (flower stem)
chantrieri => in honor of Chantrier Frères, famous horticulturalists of Mortefontaine, France, in the second half of the nineteenth century
Characteristics
Climate: tropical
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: herb
Flower colour: purple