Dioscorea balcanica is a herbaceous perennial in the family Dioscoreaceae.

Height 2–5 m. Flowers cup-shaped, arranged in racemes, producing loculicidal capsules.

This species was named in 1914 by Nedeljko Kosanin (1874–1934), manager (1906–1934) of the Jevremovac botanical gardens in Belgrade, Serbia.

[2] Balkans: Montenegro to North Albania (see map).

[3] As such it is the only wild Dioscorea species found on the Balkan Peninsula where it is endemic.