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Dioscorea hamiltonii

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

Hooker f.

Common Names

• Igname-chat (Haiti)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• S Guizhou
• Hunan
• Taiwan
• S Yunnan - China
• Assam - India
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• secondary growth
• Forest
• scrub forest
• montane areas. Tubercules edible but difficult to collect

Flowering Times

• Oct-Nov (Thailand)
• Jul-Jun (China)
• Dec (China)

Fruiting Times

• Dec-Feb (Thailand)
• Sep-Jan (China)

Perennial deciduous herbaceous tuberous glabrous twiner with glabrous stems, glabrous simple leaves 100mm x 80mm, axillary panicles to 400mm long with bracts, 15-20 flowers per inflorescence, 1.25mm brown spotted male flowers, sepals 1mm long, female flowers in spikes to 200mm, capsule to 25mm with 205mm x 30mm wide wings at 90º, bulbils produced

Further References

• net
• USNH
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• Kew