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Dioscorea flabellifolia

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

Prain & Burkill

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Brunei
• Caroline Islands
• Philippines

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• humid jungle

Flowering Times

• May

Fruiting Times

Glabrescent scandent or trailing tuberous liana with densely spiny stems, greenish male flowers to 1.5mm long, male flowers in axillary racemes to 450mm long with puberulous bracts to 3mm long and tepals to 1.5mm long, leaves glabrous above, glabrescent beneath to 200mm x 160mm. Fruit capsule with wings 35mm x 9mm

Further References

• HKU
• net
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Elmer
• Flora Malesiana
• Kew