''Dioscorea trilinguis'' is a climbing tuberous geophyte in the family
Dioscoreaceae
Dioscoreaceae () is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, with about 715 known species in nine genera. The best-known member of the family is the yam (some species of ''Dioscorea'').
The APG system (1998) and APG II system (2003) both p ...
. It is native to southeastern
Brazil
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(
Bahia
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,
Rio de Janeiro
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,
São Paulo
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), and is found growing in
tropical forests
Tropical forests (a.k.a. jungle) are forested landscapes in tropical regions: ''i.e.'' land areas approximately bounded by the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn, but possibly affected by other factors such as prevailing winds.
Some tropical fore ...
, dry forests, and on clay soil.
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