EXSICCATAE #:    00618918
TROPICOS #:      03100010
TAXON:           Tacca leontopetaloides (L.) Kuntze 
COUNTRY:         Madagascar
PROV|DEPT|DIST:  Toamasina
LOWER POLITICAL: 
LOCALITY:        Ambila-Lemaitso
BETWEEN/AND:     
VICINITY:        Eastern Domain: Ambila-Lemaitso, 10 km E. of Brickaville.
                   Coastal dune forest and taller forest behind lagoon. 
ELEV:            0-50 m
COORD:           18.51S 49.08E
COLLECTOR:       G. E. Schatz & W. D'Arcy 
NUMBER:          1476
COLL.DATE:       29 August 1987
INSTITUTIONS:    MO, TAN
SPECIMEN INFO:   Herb in low lying wet sphagnum area over white sand. 
                   Filiform bracts purple. Foliaceous bracts light green 
                   with purple stripes. Corolla light green fringed purple 
                   outside purple inside. Staminodes white. Photo.
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