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Dioscorea elephantipes (hottentot-bread)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

Dioscorea elephantipes (elephant's foot or Hottentot bread; syn. Testudinaria elephantipes), is a species of flowering plant in the genus Dioscorea of the family Dioscoreaceae, native to the dry interior of South Africa,
View Wikipedia Record: Dioscorea elephantipes

Predators

Rhizoecus amorphophalli[1]
Theretra gnoma[2]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0