Dioscorea esculenta

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dioscoreales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Dioscoreales

Familia: Dioscoreaceae
Genus: Dioscorea
Species: Dioscorea esculenta

Name

Dioscorea esculenta (Lour.) Burkill, 1917

Synonyms

  • Basionym
    • Oncus esculentus Lour., Fl. Cochinch.: 194 (1790).
  • Homotypic
    • Oncorhiza esculentus (Lour.) Pers., Syn. Pl. 1: 374 (1805).
  • Heterotypic
    • Dioscorea aculeata Roxb., Fl. Ind. ed. 1832, 3: 800 (1832), nom. illeg.
    • Dioscorea fasciculata Roxb., Fl. Ind. ed. 1832, 3: 801 (1832).
    • Dioscorea papillaris Blanco, Fl. Filip.: 801 (1837).
    • Dioscorea tugui Blanco, Fl. Filip.: 800 (1837).
    • Dioscorea tiliifolia Kunth, Enum. Pl. 5: 401 (1850).
    • Dioscorea papuana Warb., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 13: 273 (1891).
    • Dioscorea spinosa Roxb. ex Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 291 (1892), nom. illeg.
    • Dioscorea fasciculata var. spinosa Prain, Bengal Pl. 2: 1066 (1903).
    • Dioscorea aculeata var. spinosa (Prain) Roxb. ex Prain & Burkill, J. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 10: 20 (1914).
    • Dioscorea esculenta var. fasciculata (Roxb.) Prain & Burkill, J. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 10: 19 (1914).
    • Dioscorea esculenta var. fulvidotomentosa R.Knuth in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 43: 190 (1924).
    • Dioscorea esculenta var. spinosa (Prain) R.Knuth in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 43: 189 (1924).
    • Dioscorea esculenta var. tiliifolia (Kunth) Fosberg & Sachet, Micronesica 20: 135 (1978).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
  • Continental:Asie
    • Regional:Tropical Asie
      • Andaman Is.; Assam; Bangladesh; Bismarck Archipelago; Borneo; Burkina; Cambodia; Caroline Is.; China South-Central; China Southeast; Cook Is.; East Himalaya; Fiji; Hainan; India; Ivory Coast; Jawa; Leeward Is.; Lesser Sunda Is.; Malaya; Maldives; Maluku; Marianas; Myanmar; Nansei-shoto; Nepal; New Guinea; Nicobar Is.; Niue; Philippines; Pitcairn Is.; Society Is.; Sulawesi; Sumatera; Taiwan; Thailand; Tonga; Vietnam; Wallis-Futuna Is.; West Himalaya; Windward Is.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

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Vernacular names

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