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Species: Dioscorea bulbifera
Collection Date: October 30, 1977
Bar Code ID: 000004447
UUID: ba3ca292-69d2-4f1b-8b84-d2dd6b11c08b
Collectors: W. C. Brumbach
Collector's Identifier: 9306
Flower Buds Present?: False
Flowers Present?: False
Fruit Present?: False
Country: United States
State or Province: Florida
County or Parish: Lee
Fips Code: 12071
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Verbatim Directions to Locality: Middle Captiva.
Habitat: twining on other shrubbery in a waste area, growing with Mucuna.
Plant Morphology Observations: vines up to 6 or 8 m. long aerial tubers greyish-white.
Notes: Plants of Sanibel and Captiva Islands.
Non digital information?: N

Identification Records

Identifier's Name:
Text Identification Date: 30 October 1977
Formal Identification Date: 1977-10-30
Lowest Rank Identified: Species
Identification History: Dioscorea alata L.; coll. W.C. Brumbach; 30 October 1977
Identifier's Name: Richard P. Wunderlin
Text Identification Date: 1984
Lowest Rank Identified: Species
Identification History: Dioscorea bulbifera L.; det. Richard P. Wunderlin; 1984

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