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Dioscoreophyllum

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Dioscoreophyllum

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Dioscoreophyllum is a genus of three species of flowering plants in the family Menispermaceae, native to Africa. The species are lianas.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderRanunculales
  5. FamilyMenispermaceae
Native toBenin, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
9
With media
11
Family
Menispermaceae
Collections
MO, MNHN, K
Recorded in
Ivory Coast, Benin, Mozambique, Liberia, Cameroon
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Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
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Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (1899) (20393738842).jpg
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taxon name
Dioscoreophyllum
taxon rank
genus
GRIN URL
npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=3759
taxon common name
dioscoreophyllum
Commons category
Dioscoreophyllum
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Encyclopedic overview

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Dioscoreophyllum is a genus of three species of flowering plants in the family Menispermaceae, native to Africa. The species are lianas.

Species Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii is noteworthy for having within its fruit an abundance of the water-soluble and intensely sweet-tasting protein monellin.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dioscoreophyllum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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