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Dioscoreales facts for kids
| Dioscoreales | |
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| Dioscorea communis | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Dioscoreales Hook.f. |
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Dioscoreales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Dioscoreaceae.
Images for kids
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Male Dioscorea batatas (D. polystachya) in Hooker's A General System of Botany 1873
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Narthecium ossifragum - bog asphodel