The monocot genus Tacca consists of some ten species. It usually is taken to constitute its own family Taccaceae, but the APG II system places it in the family Dioscoreaceae. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders Base Monocots: Acorus Alismatales Asparagales Dioscoreales Liliales Pandanales Family Petrosaviaceae Commelinids: Arecales Commelinales Poales Zingiberales Family Dasypogonaceae Monocotyledons or monocots are a group of flowering plants usually ranked as a class and once called the Monocotyledoneae. ... Families Burmanniaceae Dioscoreaceae Nartheciaceae An order of monocots formerly grouped with the Liliales. ... Genera Dioscorea Stenomeris Tacca Trichopus Dioscoreaceae are a family of monocot flowering plants. ... Johann Reinhold Forster (October 22, 1729 - December 9, 1798) was a Polish born naturalist of German descent. ... Orders Base Monocots: Acorus Alismatales Asparagales Dioscoreales Liliales Pandanales Family Petrosaviaceae Commelinids: Arecales Commelinales Poales Zingiberales Family Dasypogonaceae Monocotyledons or monocots are a group of flowering plants usually ranked as a class and once called the Monocotyledoneae. ... Genera Dioscorea Stenomeris Tacca Trichopus Dioscoreaceae are a family of monocot flowering plants. ...
Taccaceae - only Tacca, the "bat flower", with ten species.
For more information about the Dioscoreales, try the Dioscoreaceae and Taccaceae Resources Lists at Texas A&M, or the DELTA descriptions for the Taccaceae, Trichopodaceae, and the Dioscoreaceae
Texas A&M Botany has a collection of images of the Dioscoreaceae and Taccaceae.