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Dioscorea esculenta

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

(Loureiro) Burkill

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• S. China
• Comoros
• Assam - India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Kedah - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Bismark Archipelago
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane areas
• forests
• forest edge
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Early Summer Apr (India)

Fruiting Times

• Jun (India)

Tuberous prickly clockwise twiner, roots sometimes spiny. Villous or puberulent stems with spines, becoming glabrescent. Pubescent or glabrescent leaves simple normally 100mm x 100mm, but can reach 150mm x 170mm. 1.8mm male flowers in racemes to 200mm with bracts to 2.5mm long, flowers pubescent outside 3mm diameter with lobes to 1.75mm, solitary pendent female flowers very rare with bracts to 2mm long. Capsule to 30mm with 12mm wide wings x 25mm long

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Rubatzky 1997
• Smith 1998
• FOC
• USNH
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• FV
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• Kew
• IJPS