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Dioscorea brownii Schinz (1900:11)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Rediscovered (Abbott, 1998)

 

Distribution

southern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Abbott, T. (1998). The rediscovery of Dioscorea brownii: an unusual and rare relative of the yams. PlantLife 18: 29.

Abbott, A. T. D., Johnson, I. M., Grieve, G. and von Staden, L. (2016). Dioscorea brownii Schinz. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2020.1. Accessed on 2023/12/26.

Arnold, T. H., Prentice, C. A., Hawker, L. C., Snyman, E. E., Tomalin, M., Crouch, N. R. and Pottas-Bircher, C. (2002). Medicinal and magical plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 13. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.

Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141.

Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. and 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.

Hilliard, O. M. and Burtt, B. L. (1976). Notes on some plants of southern Africa chiefly from Natal. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 34: 283-285.

Hills, Ryan, Muasya, A. Muthama, Maurin, Olivier and Wilkin, Paul. (2018). A threatened new species of Dioscorea from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Dioscorea hurteri (Dioscoreaceae). Kew Bulletin 73: 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-018-9742-9

Maurin, Oliver, Muasya, A. Muthama, Catalan, Pilar, Shongwe, Eugene Z., Viruel, Juan, Wilkin, Paul and van der Bank, Michelle. (2016). Diversification into novel habitats in the Africa clade of Dioscorea (Dioscoreaceae): erect habit and elephant’s foot tubers. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16: 238. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0812-z

Merckx, Vincent, Schols, Peter, Kamer, Hiltje Maas-van de, Maas, Paul, Huysmans, Suzy and Smets, Erik. (2006). Phylogeny and evolution of Burmanniaceae (Dioscoreales) based on nuclear and mitochondrial data. American Journal of Botany 93(11): 1684-1698. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.93.11.1684

Nichols, G. (2005). Growing rare plants, a practical handbook on propagating the treatened plants of southern Africa. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 36. SABONET, Pretoria.

Pooley, E. (1998). A field guide to the wild flowers of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Region. Natal Flora Publications Trust, Durban.

Raimondo, D., Von Staden, L., Foden, W., Victor, J. E., Helme, N. A., Turner, R. C., Kamundi, D. A. and Manyama, P. A. (eds). In press. Red List of South African plants. Strelitzia.

Scott-Shaw, C. R. (1999). Rare and threatened plants of KwaZulu-Natal and neighbouring regions. KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service, Pietermaritzburg.

Van Wyk, B-E., Van Oudtshoorn, B. and Gericke, N. (1997). Medicinal plants of South Africa. Briza Publications, Pretoria.

von Staden, L. (2017). Dioscorea brownii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T63729383A63729402. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T63729383A63729402.en. Accessed on 26 December 2023.

Williams, V. L., Victor, J. E. and Crouch, N. R. (2013). Red Listed medicinal plants of South Africa: Status, trends, and assessment challenges. South African Journal of Botany 86: 23-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2013.01.006

 

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