Stemona australiana
(Benth.) C.H. Wright
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Root, Tubers
The tubers and roots are eaten.
Where to Find It
A tropical plant. It grows in rainforest and open forest. In tropical Queensland it grows from sea level to 115 m altitude.
Australia*, Pacific, Papua New Guinea, PNG,
How to Identify
A slender climber or vine. It has fleshy tubers. It can be 15 m long. The leaves are large and heart shaped. The leaves are held out from the stems on slender leaf stalks. There are several veins which spread out from where the leaf joins the stalk. The flowers are small and produced singly or in pairs in the axils of leaves. They are dark brown or black with red patches. The fruit are small and oval capsules.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Stemona australiana is a species of plant native to tropical south-east Asia, including northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. It grows as a herb or climber up to two metres high. It was first published by George Bentham in 1878 under the name Roxburghia javanica var. australiana, indicating that it was considered a variety of the plant now known as Stemona javanica. In 1896 Charles Henry Wright transferred it into Stemona, a name for the genus which had priority over Roxburghia, at the same time promoting it to species rank as Stemona australiana.
Notes
There are 30 Stemona species. They grow in Asia.
Names & Synonyms
References (8)
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