Taxon:
Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. var. batatas
Summary
Verified:
12/17/1991
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969-. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios.
- Correa, J. E. & H. Y. Bernal. 1991. Especies vegetales promisorias de los paises del Convenio Andres Bello. 6:140-176. Note: = Ipomoea batatas
- Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs Note: = Ipomoea batatas
- Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
- Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa Note: poisonous
- Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. Note: poisonous
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
- McDonald, J. A. & D. H. Austin. 1990. Changes and additions in Ipomoea section Batatas (Convolvulaceae). Brittonia 42:116-120.
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. Note: = Ipomoea batatas
- Muñoz-Rodríguez, P. et al. 2018. Reconciling conflicting phylogenies in the origin of sweet potato and dispersal to Polynesia. Curr. Biol. 28:1-11. Note: cutivated Ipomoea batatas var. batatas (as I. batatas) is supported as an hexaploid derived from a single autoployploidization event of I. trifida, followed by hyrbridization between these species
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
- Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
- Roullier, C. et al. 2011. Combining chloroplast and nuclear microsatellites to investigate origin and dispersal of New World sweet potato landraces. Molec. Ecol. 20:3963-3977. Note: this study found evidence based on plastid SSR for two independent areas of domestication with two different sets of genotypes
- Srisuwan, S. et al. 2006. The origin and evolution of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) and its wild relatives through the cytogenetic approaches. Pl. Sci. (Elsevier) 171:424-433.
- Staples, G. W. 1996. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
Common names
English
kuumara – sweet-potato – Aymara (Peru)
kkumara – tuktuka – Dutch
zoete aardappel – English (United States)
yam – French
patate douce – German
Batate – Süßkartoffel – Portuguese
batata-doce – Portuguese (Brazil)
batata-da-terra – Quichua (Peru)
apichu – Spanish
batata – boniato – camote – Spanish (Venezuela)
papa dulce – Swedish
batat – Transcribed Korean
goguma –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | cult. worldwide |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | widely natzd. in tropics |
6 | Other | | | | | origin neotropics |
Cultivated
(cult. worldwide)
Naturalized
(widely natzd. in tropics)
Other
(origin neotropics)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | starch | | Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening |
Human food | vegetable | tubers widely used | Srisuwan, S. et al. 2006. The origin and evolution of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) and its wild relatives through the cytogenetic approaches. Pl. Sci. (Elsevier) 171:424-433. |
Materials | alcohol | | Staples, G. W. 1996. pers. comm. Note: re. common names |
Medicines | folklore | as Ipomoea batatas | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. |
Medicines | folklore | as Ipomoea batatas | Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs Note: = Ipomoea batatas |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. Note: poisonous |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa Note: poisonous |