Cyrtosperma merkusii
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Name (Latin)
Cyrtosperma merkusii
Other forms of name
Cyrtosperma chamissonis
Cyrtosperma edule
Cyrtosperma lasioides
Gallan
Giant swamp taro
Lasia merkusii
Swamp taro
See Also From tracing topical name
Cyrtosperma
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q3515765
Library of congress:
sh2021005479
Sources of Information
- Work cat: Grandison, Gordon S. Report on a visit to State of Yap (Federated States of Micronesia) and Republic of Palau to investigate a nematode disorder of giant swamp taro (Cyrtosperma chamissonis), 3-8 June, 1990, 1990.
- OCLC Worldcat database, July 9, 2021(kw "giant swamp taro"=22; kw "swamp taro" not "giant swamp taro=15)
- ITIS via WWW, June 4, 2021(Cyrtosperma merkusii, accepted species, common name: gallan; synonyms: Cyrtosperma lasioides, Cyrtosperma chamissonis (common name: swamp taro, Cyrtosperma edule; Genus: Cyrtosperma; Family: Araceae)
- USDA PLANTS database, June 4, 2021(scientific names: Cyrtosperma chamissonis, Cyrtosperma edule, Cyrtosperma merkusii; common names: swamp taro, gallan)
- NAL Agricultural thesaurus and glossary via WWW, June 4, 2021(Cyrtosperma merkusii; species; UF Cyrtosperma chamissonis, Cyrtosperma edule, Cyrtosperma lasioides, giant swamp taro, Lasia merkusii; BT Cyrtosperma (genus); family: Araceae)
- GBIF, June 4, 2021(Cyrtosperma chamissonis; classification: Plantae/Tracheophyta/Liliopsida/Alismatales/Araceae/Cyrtosperma)
- Wikipedia, June 4, 2021(Cyrtosperma merkusii or giant swamp taro; a crop grown throughout Oceania and into South and Southeast Asia; a riverine and "swamp crop" similar to taro, but with bigger leaves and larger, coarser roots; no demonstrably wild populations today, but believed to be native to Indonesia; known as puraka in Cook Islands, lak in Yap (Federated States of Micronesia), babai in Kiribati, pula'a in Samoa, via kan in Fiji, pulaka in Tokelau and Tuvalu, simiden in Chuuk, swam taro in Papua New Guinea, navia in Vanuatu and palawan in the Philippines; same species is also known by the names Cyrtosperma lasioides, Cyrtosperma chamissonis, and Cyrtosperma edule)