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Dioscorea hirtiflora

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkino
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riverside Roots edible

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Herbaceous tuberous twiner with ferrugineous pubescent stems, leaves to 100mm x 50mm glabrous above grey or rusty-pubescent beneath, male axillary spikes with bracts, female fascicles to 100mm long with minute bracts

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Kew