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Dioscorea nipponica Makino

Dioscorea is a genus of over 600 species of flowering plants in the family Dioscoreaceae, native throughout the tropical.
Dioscorea nipponica Makino, Rhizome horizontal, many branched, cylindric, more than 1.5 cm thick; cork layer persistent or readily detached. Stem twining to left, drying green or reddish brown, to 5 m, glabrescent. Leaves alternate, simple; petiole 10--20 cm; leaf blade shiny, drying yellowish green, broadly cordate to palmately unequally 3--7-lobed, very variable in shape, 7--15 × 4--13 cm, glabrous or sparsely minutely setose especially along veins, basal veins 7 or 9, outermost ones often forked, base cordate, margin undulate to prominently bluntly toothed or lobed, apex acuminate.
Mixed forests, scrub forests, warm-temperature transitional areas; 100--1800 m. Anhui, Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, N Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, S Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, NW Sichuan, N Zhejiang [Japan, Korea, Russia].

Dioscorea nipponica Makino
Research products of Dioscorea nipponica Makino
Catalog Product Name CAS Number Manual
CFN98537Gracillin19083-00-2  PDF
CFN99515Diosgenin512-04-9  PDF
CFN99517Protodioscin55056-80-9  PDF
CFN98537Gracillin19083-00-2  PDF
CFN99830Nicotiflorin17650-84-9  PDF
CFN98980Ergosterol57-87-4  PDF
CFN97326Stigmasterol83-48-7  PDF
CFN99916Beta-Sitosterol83-46-5  PDF
CFN98713Daucosterol474-58-8  PDF
CFN90694Pseudoprotodioscin102115-79-7  n/a
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