Dioscorea polyclados

Hook.f.

Kedut

Dioscoreaceae Edible: Tubers, Root 2 iNaturalist observations

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Description

A yam. It keeps growing from year to year by sprouting from tubers. It is hairy. The vines are 30 m long and twine to the right. The tubers are produced from a woody corm. They can be 2.5 m deep in the soil. They occur as swollen ends on long stalks. The flesh is white. The leaves are simple and opposite. The leaf stalk is 6 cm long. It often has prickles. The leaf blade is 12-25 cm long by 12-22 cm wide. The male flowering stalks are 30 cm long and occur as 1-4 together. The female flowering stalks are 20 cm long. The capsule has wings.

Edible Uses

The tubers are boiled several times or baked before eating.

Traditional Uses

The tubers need to be boiled several times or baked before eating.

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Distribution

A tropical plant. It grows in lower hill forest up to 700 m altiitude.

Where It Grows

Asia, Cambodia, Indochina, Indonesia, Malaysia, SE Asia,

Notes

There are about 650 species of Dioscorea.

Synonyms

Dioscorea polyclados Hook.f. var oblongifolia Uline & R. KnuthDioscorea polyclados Hook.f. var velutina (O. Kuntze) Burk

Also Known As

Domlong romeat, Kedut

References (6)

Burkill, I.H., 1966, A Dictionary of the Economic Products of the Malay Peninsula. Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Vol 1 (A-H) p 836
Flora Malesiana Vol 13 p 334
Lim, T. K., 2015, Edible Medicinal and Non Medicinal Plants. Volume 9, Modified Stems, Roots, Bulbs. Springer p 37
PROSEA handbook Volume 9 Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates. p 174
Turreira Garcia, N., et al, 2017, Ethnobotanical knowledgeof the Kuy and Khmer people in Prey Lang, Cambodia. Cambodian Journal of Natural History 2017 (1): 76-101

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