Dioscorea pentaphylla L.

[Saroj Kasaju]

Dear Members,

Location: Chalnakhel, kathmandu, Nepal

Altitude: 1570 m.

Date: 14 September  2019

Habit : Wild

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[Saroj Kasaju]

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[dr.rakesh Singh]

Very well documented !!!

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[Saroj Kasaju]

Thank you Dr. Singh!

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Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[ushadi]

Love the bulbils

do you ever take one home and cut it open or slice on

and do you ever try to take pictures of where th evine is rooted into the ground?

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[Saroj Kasaju]

It was on a slope beyond reach.

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[ushadi]

oh, ok

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[J.M. Garg]

Pl. also check Dioscorea kamoonensis Kunth as per SK1493 09 Oct 2018 and as per keys in Flora of China:

1	Stem not prickly.		(2)
+	Stem and/or petioles prickly, particularly toward base of plant.		(4)
2 (1)	Bulblets black at maturity, globose, glabrous, smooth; leaf blade glabrous or sparsely hairy along veins		29 D. melanophyma
+	Bulblets not black at maturity, not globose, rough or with warty projections; leaf blade ± uniformly hairy.		(3)
3 (2)	Stem hairs spreading; male flowers 2--3.5 × 2--3 mm; tubers ovoid, cork brown		30 D. kamoonensis
+	Stem hairs appressed; male flowers 1--2 × ca. 1.5 mm; tubers cylindric, cork yellowish white		31 D. delavayi
4 (1)	Capsule 1.8--2.5 cm; leaf blade abaxially sparsely hairy or glabrous.		(5)
+	Capsule 3.5--7 cm; leaf blade abaxially hairy, sometimes densely so.		(6)
5 (4)	Capsule not black at maturity; leaflets 3, suborbicular to broadly obovate; tubers with 3--10 or more branches, each end enlarged into an ovoid or ellipsoid tuber		32 D. menglaensis
+	Capsule black at maturity; leaflets 3--7, obovate to oblanceolate; tubers simple, long ovoid		33 D. pentaphylla

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[Saroj Kasaju]

Unable tom decide. Does Dioscorea kamoonensis carry only one bulbil at nodes ?

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[J.M. Garg]

Pl. check as per SK1493 09 Oct 2018 and red and blue characteristics as given in the keys by me.