Dioscorea mundtii Baker

Dioecious climber, ± 2 m high; stem solitary; tuber with 2 horizontal branches, corky, black. Leaves alternate, petiolate, up to 95 x 80 mm, broadly ovate, 7-veined, base deeply cordate, apex acuminate, mucronate, margins entire. Male inflorescences single or axillary fascicles, racemes up to 100 mm long, erect. Male flowers many, perianth greenish cream-coloured, funnel-shaped, lobes recurved; filaments attached to lip of cup, inner lower, ± 1 mm long, incurved; anthers introrse, yellow; pistillode rudimentary. Female inflorescences racemose, up to 80 mm long. Female flowers: perianth greenish, rotate; staminodes rudimentary; ovary inferior, crowned with persistent perianth; style branches 3; stigmatic surfaces flared. Flowering time Feb.-Apr. Fruit a capsule, 35 x 15 mm, with straw-coloured sheen.