Nombres vernáculos
(en territorios con usos significativos TRAMIL)
Haití:
- masoko
Descripción botánica
Planta trepadora glabra, con tubérculos de forma irregular que se desarrollan en la axila de las hojas. Hojas alternas, ovadas a suborbiculares, de 7 a 19 cm, largo-acuminadas, acorazonadas en la base. Flores estaminadas solitarias, en espigas de hasta 10 cm, en ocasiones paniculadas; flores pistiladas fasciculadas, en espigas simples de hasta 25 cm. Cápsula oblonga, de 2.2 a 2.5 cm.
Voucher(s)
Jiménez,687,JBSD
Farmacopea
Ed.2References
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