Dioscorea pentaphylla L.

  • Kingdom

    Plantae

  • Division

    Magnoliophyta

  • Order

    Dioscoreales

  • Family

    Dioscoreaceae

  • All Determinations

    Dioscorea pentaphylla L.

Dioscorea pentaphylla Linnaeus, Spec. Plant., 1032, 1753.
Strong, twining, pubescent, somewhat prickly herbaceous vine with more or less
angular stems. Leaves alternate, palmately 3-5 or sometimes 7-foliate, leaflets elliptic-
lanceolate, attenuately acuminate, entire, up to IS or more cm. long, pubescent, petiolules
up to 1 cm. long, petioles up to 10 or more cm. long. Root tubers large.
Frequent in thickets (9771, 10069, 10090). Tubers edible. Native name,
pilita. A variety with purple flesh is known as pilita kula and one with white
lesh as. Hlita tea.
BEPAUW UNIV.
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2G054 HERBARIUM
c. yuncker
TRUMAN G. YUNCKER HERBARIUM
OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY (CPU)
PURCHASED BY NY IN 1987
YOfi,
botanical.
GARDE'S
Flora of Niue Island
Herbarium of Bernice P. Bishop Museum
No.
9771
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
*nI57ni 17
Presented to DPU Herbarium
by T. G. Yuncker
Ddoscorea pentaphylla L.
Tubas in leaf axils. Climbing in
thicket 6 mi. e. of Alofl. 65 m. alt,
Jan. 20, 1940.
’pil ita*
Coll. T. G. Yuncker
Dot. «
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