Rajania

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Dioscoreaceae

• Scientific Name

  Rajania

• Description

  Species Description - Twining vines, with alternate, petioled leaves and small, greenish, dioecious, racemose flowers, the staminate ones commonly clustered in the racemes, the pistillate solitary. Staminate flowers with a 6-cleft perianth and 6 stamens with short filaments, the pistil rudimentary or none. Pistillate flowers with 6 distinct perianth-segments, the styles 2-cleft; staminodia minute or wanting. Fruit samaroid, 1-seeded, indehiscent, the wing terminal, thin. [Commemorates John Kay, 1628-1705, famous English botanist.] Ten species or more, natives of the West Indies. Type species: Bajania hastata L.