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Dioscorea cayenensis

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

Lamarck

Hardiness Zone

Min 15C

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Benin
• Burkino
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Mali
• Nigeria
• Niger
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Togo

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thickets
• disturbed forest.

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Twining slightly woody glabrous tuberous liana with thorns on young stems, fragrant axillary fascicles or spikes of greenish flowers to 4mm, staminate flowers to 2.5mm long,pistillate to 1.5mm long, capsule 17mm long

Edible tubers

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Bailey 1976
• Rubatzky 1997
• USDA
• FCP
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Kew