Dioscorea sp Borneo (narrow leaf) (ined.) is a perennial climbing plant producing annual stems from a perennial rootstock. These stems scramble over the ground, or twine into the surrounding vegetation
This is an an undescribed Dioscorea species from North Borneo with very long, slender leaf blades of dark green colour with silver sheen to them.
The genus name Dioscorea is named after a Greek naturalist (botanist, pharmacologist, and briefly, Emperor Nero’s personal physician) of the first century, Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης (Pedánios Dioskourídēs, “Dioscorides”)
Dioscorea sp Borneo (narrow leaf)
Name: Dioscorea sp Borneo (narrow leaf) (ined.)
Type: herbaceous perennial
Form: Climbing tuber geophyte
Family: Dioscoreaceae
Native Range: North Borneo
Zone: 12-13
Habitat: damp rainforest areas, shade
Height: up to 200cm
Spread: 30cm
Sun: Part shade
Water: Medium
Maintenance: Low
Leaf: Evergreen
Tolerate: Semi ShadeTaxon identifiers: none recorded, sp. not yet described, possibly BM002049934 of Department of Botany at Natural History Museum Collection (named Dioscorea loheri Prain & Burkill - BM001049934, but no name recorded on the document itself, and large differences to D. loheri)
Synonyms: none recorded, sp. not yet described