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CORKHILL

Corkhill, N.L. 1948. The poisonous wild cluster yam, Dioscorea dumetorum, Pax., as a famine food in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 42:278-287.

Dioscorea dumetorum

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