| Dioscorea quartiniana A. Rich. |
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| Family : DIOSCOREACEAE |
Protologue : Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 316 (1850)   |
| Information on the genus : Dioscorea |
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Status
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| Status for MA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for SA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Homotypic |
 Dioscorea quartiniana A. Rich. var. quartiniana |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Dioscorea pentaphylla auct. sensu Madagascar |
| =Dioscorea crinita Hook. f. (1885) |
| =Dioscorea quartiniana var. dinteri (Schinz) Burkill |
| =Dioscorea dinteri Schinz (1900) |
| =Dioscorea quartiniana var. latifolia R. Knuth |
| =Dioscorea forbesii Baker (1889) |
| =Dioscorea ulugurensis R. Knuth (1934) |
| =Dioscorea gossweileri R. Knuth (1935) |
| =*Dioscorea anchiatasi Harms (1908) |
| =Dioscorea angolensis R. Knuth (1935) |
| =Dioscorea quartiniana var. stuhlmannii (Harms) Burkill |
| =Dioscorea stuhlmannii Harms (1895) |
| =Dioscorea quartiniana var. schliebenii (R. Knuth) Burkill |
| =Dioscorea schliebenii R. Knuth (1932) |
| =Dioscorea peteri R. Knuth (1937) |
| =Dioscorea anchietae Harms ex R. Knuth (1924) |
| =Dioscorea apiculata De Wild. (1902) |
| =Dioscorea beccariana Martelli (1886) |
| =Dioscorea cryptantha Baker (1887) |
| =Dioscorea excisa R. Knuth (1924) |
| =Dioscorea holstii Harms (1895) |
| =Dioscorea pentadactyla Welw. (1899) |
| =Dioscorea pentaphylla (Hochst.) A. Rich. non L. |
| =Botryosicyos pentaphyllus Hochst. (1844) |
| =Dioscorea phaseoloides Pax (1892) |
| =Dioscorea schweinfurthiana Pax (1892) |
| =Dioscorea verdickii De Wild. (1902) |
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| Taxon infra-specific |
| Dioscorea quartiniana A. Rich. var. quartiniana |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Slender vine 5-6 m long, climbing up trees or spreading over lower shrubs, sometimes trailing along ground, glabrous to ± pubescent; tuber c. 10 cm long, ovoid, lobed or a main tuber with several smaller tubers in dense clusters 2,5-7 cm Ø, with dense fibrous roots; indumentum of simple straight hairs 0,1-0,6 mm long; stems unarmed, left-twining, c. 5 mm Ø, sometimes with small bulbils in leaf axils; leaves alternate, digitately 3-7-foliolate, rarely entire; petiole 0,5-10 cm long; petiolules 0,5-5 mm long; leaflets elliptic to oblanceolate to obovate or linear or rhombic, 1-15x0,4-6 cm, each leaflet with 1 midrib, excurrent forming an apiculus 2-9 mm long, densely woolly-pubescent above and beneath to pubescent only on veins and margins; male inflorescences with peduncle 0,4-3,8 cm long, 1 or 2-7 looking like catkins, 3-6 cm long, in axils of upper leaves, or often in pendulous leafless panicles to 40 cm long, flowers hidden by bracts; female inflorescences pendulous, spicate, to 17 cm long; flowers sweet-scented; capsule ± oblong, 1,5-3,4x1-1,8 cm, ± hairy; seed winged on basal side only, 3,5-7 mm long. |
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| Ecology : |
Open spaces in rain-forest; riverine forest; forest edges; termite hills; scrub; thickets; often on hillsides and near rock outcrops; Acacia, Commiphora woodland; deciduous wooded grassland with Anogeissus, Boswellia, Acacia, Cussonia spp.; broken sandstone; 0-2650 m alt. – The most widespread Dioscorea in Africa. |
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Polymorphic species, and a number of forms exist, and there are intermediates between all the forms, which make an infraspecific classification impossible. |
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| Biol./Eco : |
perennial-Geophyte, Climber- Ht 5 m. Alt: 100 - 1550 m. Distribution: NAM, KN, LP, MP, NW, SWZ |
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| Biol./Eco : |
Vine, Geophyte; distribution: Comoros, Africa, |
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Bibliography for Tropical Africa :
- Darbyshire, I. Kordofami, M. & al. (2015). The plants of Sudan and south Sudan, An annoted checklist. Kew Publishing
Bibliography for Southern Africa :
- Ethnobotany of the Kwanyama Ovambos : 72 (1985).
Bibliography other :
- Cat. Pl. Vasc. Burkina Faso:61 (2012)
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under chg |
| see under Flore d'Afrique Centrale |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
| see under Catalogue de Madagascar |
| see under African Plants - a Photo Guide |
| see under Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden |
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| Record n°11219 modified 2016-10-31 |
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