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Dioscorea bulbifera - Bulbil - Click to enlarge!

Bulbil; P.R. China; 5/2009 © Joachim Sauerborn

Dioscorea bulbifera - Branch - Click to enlarge!

Branch; Simpang Empat, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 4/1999 © Jörn Germer

Dioscorea bulbifera - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 7/2008 © Jingxin Liu

Dioscorea bulbifera - Fruits - Click to enlarge!

Fruits; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 7/2008 © Jingxin Liu

Dioscorea bulbifera - Upper surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper surface of leaf; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 7/2008 © Jingxin Liu

Dioscorea bulbifera - Lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Lower surface of leaf; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 7/2008 © Jingxin Liu

Dataset

Identifier: 182
Date of entry: 01.12.2005
Last update: 12.08.2023

Common name

English: Air Potato

Mandarin: 黄独 (huang du)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Liliopsida (397)

      Order: Dioscoreales (13)

        Family: Dioscoreaceae (13)(family description)

          Genus: Dioscorea (11)

            Epithet: bulbifera L. (1)

bulbifera => bearing or carrying bulbils

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: liana

External links

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World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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