New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

---

Short communication 

Dioscoreaceae, new for the adventive flora of New Zealand

W. R. Sykes

Landcare Research
P.O. Box 69
Lincoln 8152, New Zealand

Abstract  Dioscorea communis, hitherto known as Tamus communis, black bryony, is a temperate Eurasian species here recorded as adventive from Wellington, New Zealand. The family Dioscoreaceae is otherwise only known from a few other species of Dioscorea that are occasionally cultivated, this having very probably been so since pre-European times.

Keywords  Dioscorea communis; adventive; New Zealand; Dioscoreaceae; key to family

B03008; Received 24 February 2003; accepted 2 July 2003; online publication date 26 November 2003
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2003, Vol. 41: 727-730
0028-825X/03/4104-0727 $7.00 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2003

PDF file of entire paper: Print-quality (52K) | screen-quality (32K)

---

This year's abstracts | Journal home page | All abstracts | Publishing home page