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Dioscorea kamoonensis

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

Kunth

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Sichuan
• Xizang
• Yunnan
• S. Zheijiang-China
• Assam
• Sikkim - India
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Secondary scrub forests
• forest margins. Root tubers edible

Flowering Times

• Jul-Sep (China)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Nov (China)

Herbaceous tuberous glabrescent twiner with pubescent stems becoming glabrescent, 3-5 foliolate pubescent leaves, racemes or axillary panicles with bracts of 3.5mm male brown to pale yellow flowers, hairy or glabrous sepals 2mm long, fruit to 24mm puberulent capsule with 8mm x 25mm wings at 45º, bulbils produced

Further References

• Grey-Wilson & Matthews 1983
• FOC
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• Kew