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Dioscorea intermedia
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Family:
DIOSCOREACEAE
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Citation: Dioscorea intermedia Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 326.1864; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6:297.1892; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1512(1056). 1928; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 871. 2009.
Dioscorea spicata Hook.f. in Trimen, Handb. Fl. Ceylon IV: 277.1898, non Roth 1821.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Eyyar
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Tamil name(s):
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Description:
Climbing herbs; stems neither winged nor conspicuously angled. Leaves alternate, 5-15 x 2-6 cm, elliptic, oblong or ovate, acuminate or cuspidate, base cuneate or rounded, coriaceous; petioles 2-4 cm long. Spikes simple, solitary or paired, slender; axis of the male spikes not zig-zag. Male perianth with 6 short lobes; female perianth with 6 free small segments. Staminodes 6, 3 or 0. Ovary inferior, 3-quetrous, 3-celled; styles 3, short. Capsules subquadrate or rather broader than long, apex and base retuse, 3.5-6 cm wide; seeds always 2 in each cell, compressed, with a large membranous wing.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Kasaragode, Thiruvananthapuram, Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
South India and Sri Lanka
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Monocotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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