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Dioscorea convolvulacea Cham. & Schltdl.

· Collected October 1900, State of Guerrero, Mexico

Dioscorea convolvulacea Cham. & Schltdl.
This herbarium specimen — a pressed and mounted climbing yam from the mountains above Iguala, Guerrero, at roughly 4,000 feet — is not a cartoon or caricature. It is a botanical voucher collected under C. G. Pringle's *Plantae Mexicanae* series and later annotated by O. Téllez in 1993. The heart-shaped leaf, wiry twining stems, and bead-like fruiting racemes are characteristic of the Dioscoreaceae. No satirical tradition applies here. The image cannot honestly be framed as comic-book prehistory without fabricating a narrative it does not support.

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