Dioscorea cirrhosaLour.

WFO wfo-0000389893 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dioscorea cirrhosa, photographed by 雲一百香果
fig. a 雲一百香果, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-28 / obs. 170572432
Dioscorea cirrhosa, photographed by 國立臺灣博物館
fig. b 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56980233
Dioscorea cirrhosa, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. c Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23402904
Dioscorea cirrhosa, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101900065
Dioscorea cirrhosa, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. e 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32688101
Dioscorea cirrhosa, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32472869
Dioscorea cirrhosa, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. g 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32472692
Dioscorea cirrhosa, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. h 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165591039

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Dioscorea cirrhosa is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Tibet, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanTibetLaosThailandVietnam Nansei-shoto
Native distribution of Dioscorea cirrhosa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT
Laos LAO ASIA-TROPICAL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Dioscorea angusta R.Knuth
  • Dioscorea bonnetii A.Chev.
  • Dioscorea camphorifolia Uline ex R.Knuth
  • Dioscorea cirrhosa var. cirrhosa
  • Dioscorea cirrhosa var. cylindrica C.T.Ting & M.C.Chang
  • Dioscorea intempestiva Prain & Burkill
  • Dioscorea matsudae Hayata
  • Dioscorea rhipogonoides Oliv.
  • Smilax petiolatumida B.R.Moore, Narkkong, Th.Moore & Lutat
  • Strophis cirrhosa (Lour.) Salisb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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