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|accepted_name=Dioscorea floridana
|accepted_authority=Bartlett
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Bull.
|place=189: 18. 1910
|year=1910
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Dioscorea villosa subsp. floridana
|authority=(Bartlett) R. Knuth
|rank=subspecies
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|name=Dioscorea villosa var. floridana
|authority=(Bartlett) H. E. Ahles
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Dioscoreaceae;Dioscorea;Dioscorea floridana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Dioscoreaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Dioscorea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Dioscorea floridana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 483
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>rhizomatous; rhizomes yellow, unbranched, horizontal, 0.5–1 cm or more diam., nodes articulate, each segment bearing 1 dark, contrasting, ± deltate scale leaf, scales brown and papery, caducous, each leaving dark, linear scar perpendicular to growing axis. <b>Stems</b> twining counterclockwise, ± polygonal to terete, 1–4 m, surface longitudinally grooved. <b>Leaves</b> alternate proximally (variation expected) and distally, 3–11 × 3–9 cm; petiole 3–8 cm, base not clasping; blade sometimes glandular, 7–9-veined, ovate-cordate to deltate, glabrous, margins entire or repand, apex acuminate. <b>Staminate</b> inflorescences (1–)2–5 in leaf axils, terminal, spicate to highly branched; cymes sessile, bearing 1–3 sessile flowers, bracteolate, internodes between cymes 2–5 mm, bracteoles linear-lanceolate, ca. 1 mm; rachis to 30 cm, secondary axes to 15 cm, subtended by linear-lanceolate bracts ca. 1–2 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> inflorescences borne singly, 4–20 or more-flowered, 4–25 cm, internodes 7–12 mm. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: perianth yellowish orange, rotate-campanulate to funnelform, 1–2 mm; tepals ± glandular, oblong, margins hyaline, apex (acute to) rounded or truncate; stamens in 2 equal whorls, inwardly curved; anthers ca. 1/3 length of filaments, thecae connate. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: perianth as in staminate flowers; staminodes 6, differentiated into anthers and filaments, less than 1/2 size of fertile stamens. <b>Capsules</b> greenish gold, ovoid, obreniform, or oblong, 1.5–2.8 × 1.5–2.5 cm. <b>Seeds</b> 9–13 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–mid summer; fruiting late summer.
|habitat=Edges of swamps, in hammocks, moist and dry (pine) forests and forest margins, sandy soils, lowlands
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;S.C.
|discussion=<p><i>Dioscorea floridana</i> is undoubtedly a close relative of <i>D. villosa</i>, but because it is identifiable using characters that vary discretely, with states not manifest in plants occupying similar habitats outside of its range, I have chosen to retain it at the rank of species.</p>
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name=Dioscorea floridana
|authority=Bartlett
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Dioscorea villosa subsp. floridana;Dioscorea villosa var. floridana
|basionyms=
|family=Dioscoreaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–mid summer; fruiting late summer.
|habitat=Edges of swamps, in hammocks, moist and dry (pine) forests and forest margins, sandy soils, lowlands
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Bull.
|publication year=1910
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Dioscorea
|species=Dioscorea floridana
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