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Dioscorea oppositifolia (Chinese yam)

Synonyms: Dioscorea opposita; Dioscorea oppositifolia var. dukhunensis; Dioscorea oppositifolia var. linnaei; Dioscorea oppositifolia var. thwaitesii

Wikipedia Abstract

Dioscorea oppositifolia is a type of yam (Dioscorea) native to Myanmar (Burma) and to the Indian Subcontinent (India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh).
View Wikipedia Record: Dioscorea oppositifolia

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Dioscorea oppositifolia

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [1]  Herb

Predators

Episteme bisma[3]
Spilosoma strigatula[3]
Tagiades japetus (Snow flat butterfly)[3]
Tagiades litigiosa (Water Snow Flat)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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