Dioscorea burchelliiBaker [family DIOSCOREACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
Dioscorea stipulosa
Dioscorea burchellii
Flora
Entry for DIOSCOREA Burchellii Baker [family DIOSCOREACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 246, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
DIOSCOREA BurchelliiBaker [family DIOSCOREACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1889, 1
Information
stems slender, very twining, glabrous; leaves alternate; petiole 1/4– 1/2 in. long; blade simple, ovate-lanceolate, shallowly cordate at the base, always entire, mucronate, 1–2 in. long, moderately firm in texture, bright green, triplinerved; male flowers in lax subspicate racemes 1–2 in. long with a slender straight glabrous axis; pedicels very short, subtended by a minute ovate-lanceolate bract; perianth campanulate, 1/12 in. long; tube very short; segments oblong, obtuse; stamens 6; filaments incurved, longer than the globose anthers; rudimentary pistil globose; female flowers and fruit unknown. null
Distribution
COAST REGION George Div.; in a forest near Touw River, Burchell, 5728! Stockenstrom Div.; Katberg, Hutton! British Kaffraria, Mrs. Barber, 34!