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Dioscorea dodecaneura

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

Velloso

Hardiness Zone

Min13C

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Paraná
• Rio de Janeiro
• Minas Gerais
• Mato Grosso
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• cut-over forest. Seasonally inundated areas
• forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Aug Feb-Apr (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• May
• Sep

Evergreen or herbaceous glabrous tuberous twining liana. Thin 200mm long heartshaped leaves marbled silver, purple beneath. Racemes of pale green to yellow-green 2mm flowers. Capsule to 20mm x 40mm.

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• RHS A-Z
• Bodkin
• Mobot
• net
• NHN
• FB
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Kew