Dioscoreaceae
Dioscorea

Dioscorea trimenii Prain & Burkill

First published in J. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 10: 29 (1914)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Sri Lanka. It is a climbing tuberous geophyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Sri Lanka

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141.
  • Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Dec 1, 1983 Thwaites, G.H.K. [2872] Sri Lanka K000098201 Syntype Yes
Dec 1, 1983 Thwaites, G.H.K. [3119] Sri Lanka K000098202 Type Yes
Jayasuriya, A.H.M.; Adachi, I. [3760] Sri Lanka K001142632 Yes
Waas, S. [1808] Sri Lanka K001142627 Yes
Jayasuriya, A.H.M.; Balasubramaniam, S. [4199] Sri Lanka K001142625 Yes
Jayasuriya, A.H.M.; Balasubramaniam, S. [4208] Sri Lanka K001142631 Yes
s.coll [270] K001142626 Yes
Jayasuriya, A.H.M.; Dassanayake, M.D.; Ekanayake, U. [3562] Sri Lanka K001142629 Yes
Jayasuriya, A.H.M.; Adachi, I. [3769] Sri Lanka K001142630 Yes
Jayasuriya, A.H.M.; Adachi, I. [3760] Sri Lanka K001142628 Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images