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Dioscorea decipiens - Upper surface of leaves - Click to enlarge!

Upper surface of leaves; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 12/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Dioscorea decipiens - Lower surface of leaves - Click to enlarge!

Lower surface of leaves; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 12/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Dataset

Identifier: 2414
Date of entry: 31.03.2015
Last update: 12.08.2023

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Liliopsida (397)

      Order: Dioscoreales (13)

        Family: Dioscoreaceae (13)(family description)

          Genus: Dioscorea (11)

            Epithet: decipiens Hook.f. (1)

decipiens => deceiving, misleading

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: liana

External links

Check for Dioscorea decipiens at

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

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