Dioscorea lepcharum Prain & Burkill (1914:36)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Dioscorea lepcharum var. bhamoica Prain & Burkill in J. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 10: 36 (1914)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1909 (Saikia et al., 2014:178)
Rediscovered on 23 September 2010 (Saikia et al., 2014:180)
Distribution
Arunachal Pradesh, India Pradesh, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Prain, D. and Burkil, I. H. (1914). A synopsis of the Dioscorea of the world, Africa excluded, with descriptions of new species, and varieties. J. & Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 10(1): 5-41.
Other references:
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.
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
Saikia, Bhaskar, Saikia, Mousmi and Das, Arup Kumar. (2014). Rediscovery of Dioscorea lepcharum Prain & Burkil [Dioscoreaceae] – from Arunachal Pradesh, India Pradesh, India after a century. Pleione 8(1): 178-180.
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