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Dioscorea praehensilis

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkino
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Rwanda
• Sierra Leone
• St Thomas Island
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Streamside on forest edge
• forest.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Apr
• Jul
• Jun

Glabrous dioecious slender herbaceous tuberous twiner sometimes with spiny stems. Leaves 100mm long. Greenish-white flowers, male flowers in fascicles 75mm long with small bracts, male perianth 1.5mm long, solitary axillary female spikes. Pale green deeply 3-lobed glabrous capsules turning brown 45mm diameter x 20mm long. Tubers with spiny roots.

Edible tubers

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• Jstor
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• FOL
• Ichikawa
• Kew