''Stenomeris'' is a genus of plants 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 ...
. It has two known species, native to
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...
.
[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
/ref> Older systems such as that of Hutchinson placed ''Stenomeris'' as the type genus of the family Stenomeridaceae, order Dioscoreales (Stenomeridaceae J. Agardh, nom. cons.).U.S. National Plant Germplasm System: Stenomeridaceae J. Agardh, nom. cons.
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* '' Stenomeris borneensis'' Oliv. - Borneo, Malaysia, Sumatra, Mindanao
* '' Stenomeris dioscoreifolia'' Planch. - Philippines
References
Dioscoreales genera
Dioscoreaceae
Taxa named by Jules Émile Planchon
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