Dioscorea villosa, Yam
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Description:
One pressed specimen of wild yam collected by "Dawson."
Dioscorea villosa L.
- Site: Charleston Co.; Charleston
- Site Number: SC1B
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- Order: Dioscoreales
- Family: Dioscoreaceae
- Genus: Dioscorea
- Species: Dioscorea villosa
- Collection: Herbarium Collection
- Object Name: Flowering Plants
- Object Id: BY6380
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