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Dioscorea transversa, the pencil yam, is a vine of eastern and northern Australia.The leaves are heart-shaped, shiny, with 5-7 prominent veins. The seed pods are rounded, green or pink before drying to a straw brown papery texture. The edible tubers are typically slender and long. There are two forms: an eastern rainforest and wet sclerophyll form which doesn't have bulbils, and a northern form which occurs in open forests and has small bulbils and large inground tubers.
CHARACTERISTICS
Botanical profile.
- Genus
- Dioscorea
- Family
- Dioscoreaceae
ALSO KNOWN AS
Other names.
en Common Yam Vine en pencil yam
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