Stenomeris Dioscoreifolia
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''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 ...
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/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.
/ref> * '' Stenomeris borneensis'' Oliv. - Borneo, Malaysia, Sumatra, Mindanao * '' Stenomeris dioscoreifolia'' Planch. - Philippines


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Dioscoreales genera Dioscoreaceae Taxa named by Jules Émile Planchon {{Monocot-stub