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Dioscorea dumetorum

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

(Kunth) Pax

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkino
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritraea
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Nigeria
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Transvaal - South Africa
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabawe

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• riverine forest streamside
• secondary forest.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• May
• Aug
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Nov
• Dec

Herbaceous tuberous climber with hairy stems sometimes with spines, trifoliate leaf glabrescent above pubescent beneath, leaflets to 150mm long, greenish brown to white flowers, tinged pink, male flowers in axillary panicles with minute pubescent bracts, male perianth pubescent, female lax racemes, glabrescent brown capsule 50mm long

Further References

• Rubatzky 1997
• Mobot
• FCP
• net
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Ichigawa
• Kew