VIRBOGA
Home Collections Lists Contact
Dioscorea cirrhosa - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Dataset

Identifier: 1876
Date of entry: 04.03.2012
Last update: 12.08.2023

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Liliopsida (392)

      Order: Dioscoreales (13)

        Family: Dioscoreaceae (13)(family description)

          Genus: Dioscorea (11)

            Epithet: cirrhosa Lour. (1)

cirrhosa => yellowish, tawny-coloured

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: liana, shrub

External links

Check for Dioscorea cirrhosa at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI
  • [1198] Dioscorea - Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database

Search for more