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Dioscorea hispida

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

Dennstedt

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Queensland - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Taiwan
• E Xizang
• Yunnan - China
• Andaman Islands
• Assam
• Sikkim - India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Bismarck Archipelago
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• forest margins
• scrub forest
• coastal
• montane streamsides.

Flowering Times

• Apr-May (China) Jul-Sep (India)

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Sep (China) Apr-May (India)

Spiny tuberous twiner with glabrescent prickly stems. 3-foliolate hairy or glabrescent leaves to 300mm long, leaflets to 250mm x 170mm. Male spikes in axillary panicles to 500mm long, flowers 3mm diameter with lobes 1mm long. Female spike to 400mm. Racemes of 3-winged leathery capsules to 70mm with wings to 15mm wide.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Rubatzky 1997
• net
• FOC
• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• Elmer
• FS
• USNH
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• Kew
• Wiart 2
• IJPS