Dioscorea transversa, the pencil yam, is a vine of eastern and northern Australia.

The seed pods are rounded, green or pink before drying to a straw brown papery texture.

[3] The tubers were a staple food of Australian Aboriginals and are eaten after cooking, usually in ground ovens.

[3] The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia records that common names included "long yam", Indigenous Australians from Central Queensland referred to it as "kowar" and that "the small young tubers are eaten by the aborigines without any preparation.

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