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Dioscorea glandulosa

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

(Grisebach) Klotzsch ex Kunth

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• scrubland
• montane forest
• wooded hillside
• disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• Mar
• May
• Aug
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jul
• Nov

Herbaceous tuberous twining vine to 4.5m with 6-angled branchlets. Leaves to 100mm long with lobes to 20mm, clasping leaf-petioles, Racemes to 100mm long with bractlets 2mm long, brownish-green flowers with bractlets, flowers 5mm wide, pistillate flowers with racemes to 2mm long with bracts. Fruit 13mm x 7mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• net
• Neotrop
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Rusby
• Kew