Dioscorea hispida

白薯榔

Dioscorea hispida Dennst.

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Dennst., Schlüssel Hortus indicus malabaricus 33. 1818. (Schlüssel Hortus Malab.)

Tanaka & Odashima, Journal of the Society of Tropical Agriculture 10: 399. 1938. (J. Soc. Trop. Agr., 熱帶農學會誌)

Dioscorea daemona Roxb.

Henry, A List of Plants from Formosa 96. 1896. (List Pl. Formos., 福爾摩沙植物名錄)
Dioscorea daemona Roxb. var. reticulata Hook. f.

Forbes & Hemsl., The journal of the Linnean Society of London. Botany 36: 91. 1903. (J. Linn. Soc., Bot.)
Dioscorea triphylla L. var. reticulata Prain & Burkill

Yamamoto, Supplementa iconum plantarum Formosanarum 3: 8. 1927. (Suppl. Icon. Pl. Formos., 續臺灣植物圖譜)

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Left-twining (sinistrorse) perennial with tuberous roots; stems rounded, 2-5 mm thick, tomentose, slightly to densely spiny on basal part.
Leaves compound, alternate, membranaceous, usually pubescent along nerves; leaflets 3; central one cuneate-obovate, apex obtuse, base obtuse to truncate, ca. 22 cm long, 15 cm wide; nerves 5 or 6 usually confluent; petiole terete, 7-14 cm long, vilose, dilated at both ends, older ones quite spiny; petiolules terete, 0.5-1 cm long.
Staminate flowers in dense head-like spikes, each with one bract at base; bracts villose, unequal, ovate to subrotund, glabrous or obscurely pubescent, inner bracts involute, thick, outer bracts smaller, hyaline, white; stamens 6, short; pistillate spike solitary, elongate; perianth segments 6, thick; style columnar, stigma bilobed; ovary tomentose.
Capsules long pyriform, 5.5 cm long, 2 cm wide.
The plats are cultivated for their edible subterritorial tubers.