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Dioscorea chondrocarpa
Dioscorea chondrocarpa
- Botanic Family
- Dioscoreaceae
- Author
- Grisebach
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Antilles
- Bolivia
- Pará
- Paraná
- Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
- Colombia
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- Guadeloupe
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Lesser Antilles
- Leeward Islands
- Martinique
- Panama
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Virgin Islands - USA
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Roadside trees
- forest edge
- disturbed areas
- forest
- inundated forest
- riverside
- primary forest
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Apr
- Mar
- May
- Aug
- Sep
- Nov
- Dec
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous slightly woody glabrous twining tuberous high-climber with adventitious roots, tuberous roots, spiny stems and aerial bulbils. Lobed leaves, lobes to 35mm long. Green or pale yellow scented flowers in solitary axillary spikes to 400mm long, flowers to 5mm across. Fruit a woody capsule 3-chambered 15mm wide x 30mm long green aging brown
Further References
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- FB
- NYBG
- Fedde
- VOPR
- FOPE
- SAFIO
- Kew