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Dioscorea buchananii

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Natal
• Transvaal - South Africa
• Tanzania
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar

Herbaceous caudiciform vine with glabrous twining stems, glabrous palmately-lobed leaves 150mm long, male flowers in axillary racemes with bracts, male perianth to 4mm long, female flowers in racemes, glabrous green capsule 40mm long

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Kew