Hooghly - Dioscorea? Dioscorea aculeata Roxb.? (D. wallichii J. D. Hooker)? : Attachments (10). 8 posts by 3 authors. Recorded yesterday (20.9.13) in rural backyard. can be Diascorea alata. My first reaction was also D. alata L. More so after visiting - But, i have D. alata which has winged stem - https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/indiantreepix/nvs57NrcH2A. The stem of this plant is terete and striate. Attaching "key" in Bengal Plants and a few more photographs. I have gone through all the pics and checked the links from you. Thanks for the hard work you put in. I admit that I have n't done that much of home work before suggesting the 'Dioscorea alata' ID. Once it was commonly seen here also. So we will wait for better ID suggestions other than D.aculeata ;if there is any.Dioscorea species in efi so far. As per The Plant list Dioscorea aculeata Roxb.is a synonym of Dioscorea esculenta (Lour.) Burkill Without inflorescence or tuber, i am afraid that the id of this plant cannot be ascertain. However, attaching a link of a document on various Dioscorea. |
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