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Taxon:
Dioscorea japonica
Thunb.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Dioscorea
Family:
Dioscoreaceae
Nomen number:
14216
Place of publication:
J. A. Murray, Syst. veg. ed. 14:889. 1784 May-Jun (Fl. jap. 151. 1784 Aug)
Comment:
for authorship of Thunberg names first published by Murray see comments in Taxon 45:672. 1996 & 46:311-314. 1997
Verified:
03/24/2006
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Dioscorea pseudojaponica
Hayata
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Reference(s)
Araki, H. et al.
1983. Some characteristics of interspecific hybrids between
Dioscorea japonica
Thunb. and
Dioscorea opposita
Thunb. J. Jap. Soc. Hort. Sci. 52:153-158.
URL:
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jjshs
Note:
hybridization with
Dioscorea polystachya
by embryo rescue
Bhattacharjee, R. et al.
2011. Chapter 4.
Dioscorea
. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, industrial crops 71-96.
Kung, T.-L. et al.
2016. Genetic diversity of
Dioscorea japonica
germplasm in Taiwan revealed by inter-simple sequence repeat DNA markers. Pl. Genet. Resources Charact. Util. 14:211-218.
URL:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PGR#
Mun-Chan, B. et al.
1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:96.
Ohwi, J.
1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
Personal Care Products Council.
INCI
URL:
http://www.personalcarecouncil.org/public/what-inci
Walker, E.
1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
URL:
http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
Japanese Rōmaji
yama-no-imo –
Reference(s)
Transcribed Korean
chamma –
Reference(s)
Distribution
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Anhui Sheng
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Fujian Sheng
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Guangdong Sheng
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Guizhou Sheng
e. & s.
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Hubei Sheng
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Hunan Sheng
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Jiangsu Sheng
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Jiangxi Sheng
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Sichuan Sheng
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Zhejiang Sheng
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
Eastern Asia
Japan
Honshu
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
Eastern Asia
Japan
Kyushu
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
Eastern Asia
Japan
Ryukyu Islands
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
Eastern Asia
Japan
Shikoku
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
Eastern Asia
Korea
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
Eastern Asia
Taiwan
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
China
China
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Eastern Asia
Taiwan
Native
Asia-Temperate
CHINA:
China
[Anhui Sheng, Zhejiang Sheng, Fujian Sheng, Hunan Sheng, Hubei Sheng, Jiangxi Sheng, Jiangsu Sheng, Guangdong Sheng, Guizhou Sheng (e. & s.), Sichuan Sheng, Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu]
EASTERN ASIA:
Korea
,
Japan
[Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku],
Taiwan
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
CHINA:
China
EASTERN ASIA:
Taiwan
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Human food
starch
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
URL:
http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Name
References