Dioscorea laurifolia Wall. ex Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 293 (1892) (syn: Dioscorea laurifolia var. hookeri R.Knuth);
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Peninsula Thailand to Malaya, Borneo: Borneo, Malaya, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO;
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Assam as per publication
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Dioscorea for identification-12: 3 very high res. images.
Help me identify this Dioscorea member
Photographed in Behali Reserve Forest, Assam on 21 April 2019.
The forest type is Semi Evergreen.
Dioscorea laurifolia Wall. ex Hook.f. !
Yes, a very good id. I agree as per Flicker, publication, POWO
I too agree on this.
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References:
POWO Catalogue of Life Flicker
Dioscorea laurifolia Wall. ex Hook. f. -A new distributional record for Assam, India– Nijara Goswami, S.K. Borthakur and D. K. Hore- Asian Journal of Conservation Biology, July 2014. Vol. 3 No. 1, pp. 88–89
