| Dioscorea praehensilis Benth. |
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| Family : DIOSCOREACEAE |
Protologue : Niger Fl. 536 (1849)  |
| Information on the genus : Dioscorea |
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Status
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Homotypic |
 Dioscorea cayenensis var. praehensilis (Benth.) A. Chev. |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Dioscorea odoratissima Pax (1892) |
| =Dioscorea angustiflora Rendle (1899) |
| =Dioscorea costermansiana De Wild. (1901) |
| =Dioscorea liebrechtsiana De Wild. (1901) |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Herbaceous twining glabrous vine to 20 m long, less when climbing on low vegetation, usually dying back annually; tuber 1, present alongside withered tuber of previous season, to 5 cm Ø, at least 60 cm long, cylindric, descending vertically; stems right-twining, prickles concentrated on larger, cataphyll-bearing stems, most dense near stem base; leaves opposite, rarely alternate; blade with apex acuminate to long-acuminate (usually longitudinally folded along midrib in herbarium specimens), base truncate to cordate; male inflorescences of 2-8 spikes, simple; female single; capsule pendent to patent, 1,5-2,4x2,8-4,3 cm, glaucous, seeds with wing all around margin. |
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| Ecology : |
In a broad range of forest and grassland habitats; woodland riverbanks; palm woods; cultivated areas; fallows; termite hills; forest margins; sandy-clayey soils; forest gallery; 200-1800 m alt. |
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D. praehensilis figuring in Fl. Eth. & Eritrea 6: 61-62, 1997, and in Sebsebe Demissew & al., Flow. Eth. & Eritrea…: 205-206, 2003, are not identified. The plant is not mentioned by Sebsebe & Nordal in Aloes & other lilies, ed. 2, 2010. |
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Bibliography for Tropical Africa :
- Cat. Pl. Vasc. Burkina Faso:60 (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 Fgui |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
| see under Flora of Mozambique |
| see under African Plants - a Photo Guide |
| see under Flora of Zimbabwe |
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