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Dioscorea trifida

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

Linnaeus f.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Veneuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Rainforests.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jul
• Aug

Non-woody twining vine with tuberous roots. Palmate 5-lobed leaves glabrous above, puberulent beneath. Leftwise twiner, axillary inflorescences of 3mm purple to brown flowers, staminate flowers to 6mm long in panicles, pistillate flowers to 2.5mm long in racemes, herbaceous, spiny,capsule 34mm x 15mm, 27mm fruit.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Rubatzky 1997
• net
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• FOPE
• HUBM
• SAFIO
• Standley
• The Plant List 2
• Kew