Rajania

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.

  • Family

    Dioscoreaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Rajania

  • Description

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    Description - Dioecious vines, herbaceous, twining; bulbils elongate. Stems cylindrical. Leaves alternate, entire, petiolate. Inflorescences axillary, of racemes or racemiform thyrses, pendulous or ascendant. Flowers 6-merous; the staminate ones commonly produced in lateral cymes along a racemiform thyrse; fertile stamens 6; the pistillate ones produced in racemes; styles bifid. Fruit an indehiscent samara, with a distal wing. An Antillean genus, of about 25 species.