Dioscorea hamiltonii Hook. fil. articles

Distribution

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Himalaya (Nepal to Bhoutan), Assum, N.E.India, Buruma, Indo-China.

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bibliographic citation: Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source: Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal @ eFloras.org
author: K.K. Shrestha, J.R. Press and D.A. Sutton
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1200-1700 m

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bibliographic citation: Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source: Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal @ eFloras.org
author: K.K. Shrestha, J.R. Press and D.A. Sutton
project: eFloras.org

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Dioscorea hamiltonii is a species of Dioscorea native to southern China, Taiwan, northern Indochina (Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar) and the Himalayas (Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Dioscorea hamiltonii is used as an ingredient in a type of chè: chè củ mài.

^ ^a ^b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ Flora of China, Vol. 24 Page 295, 褐苞薯蓣 he bao shu yu, Dioscorea persimilis Prain & Burkill, J. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal. 4: 454. 1908.
^ Samanta, A.K. (2006). The genus Dioscorea L. in Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalayas - a census. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 30: 555-563.
^ Wilkin, P. & Thapyai, C. (2009). Flora of Thailand 10(1): 1-140. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok.

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Dioscorea hamiltonii is a species of Dioscorea native to southern China, Taiwan, northern Indochina (Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar) and the Himalayas (Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam).

Dioscorea hamiltonii is used as an ingredient in a type of chè: chè củ mài.