Abstract

Dioscorea pseudocleistogama from the Guamuhaya Massif in central Cuba is described and illustrated. The species is assigned to Dioscorea section Rajania. It can be distinguished from other species of section Rajania by its staminate inflorescences possessing racemes of sessile to subsessile cymes bearing narrowly-tubular staminate flowers with strongly imbricate ligulate tepals, and pollen with the exine rugulate.

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