Taxon:
Dioscorea cayenensis Lam.
Summary
Place of publication:
Encycl. 3:233. 1789
Verified:
05/12/1995
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Ayensu, E. S. & D. G. Coursey. 1972. Guinea yams the botany, ethnobotany, use and possible future of yams in West Africa. Econ. Bot. 26:301-318. URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/12231 Note: it suggested Dioscorea cayenensis as a parental species of D. rotundata, the latter interpreted as an allotetraploid
- Bhattacharjee, R. et al. 2011. Chapter 4. Dioscorea. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, industrial crops 71-96.
- Burkill, H. M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. 1:660.
- Chaïr, H. et al. 2005. Use of cpSSR for the characterisation of yam phylogeny in Benin. Genome 48:674-684.
- Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
- Flach, M. & F. Rumawas, eds. 1996. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 9:86. URL: http://proseanet.org Note: mentions
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Dioscorea+cayenensis&quantity=1
- Girma, G. et al. 2014. Next-generation sequencing based genotyping, cytometry and phenotyping for understanding diversity and evolution of guinea yam. Theor. Appl. Genet. 127:1783-1794. URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/122 Note: it examined polyploidy accross 21 different accessions of Dioscorea cayenensis, all of which were confirmed as triploid plants; it supported the recognition of this taxon "as a subspecies of D. rotundata"
- Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
- Hamon, P. & B. Touré. 1990. The classification of the cultivated yams (Dioscorea cayenensis - rotundata complex) of West Africa. Euphytica 47:179-187. Note: Netherlands journal of plant breeding
- Howard, R. 1974-1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
- Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. Note: lists as "cayennensis"
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953-1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
- Onyilagha, J. C. & J. Lowe. 1985. Studies on the relationship of Dioscorea cayenensis and Dioscorea rotundata cultivars. Euphytica 35:733-739. Note: based on 76 characters it distinguished Dioscorea cayenensis from D. rotundata
- 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
- Scarcelli, N. et al. 2006. Genetic nature of yams (Dioscorea sp.) domesticated by farmers in Benin (West Africa). Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 53:121-130. URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/10722
- Terauchi, R. et al. 1992. Origin and phylogeny of Guinea yams as revealed by RFLP analysis of chloroplast DNA and nuclear ribosomal DNA. Theor. Appl. Genet. 83:743-751. URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/122 Note: it proposed the recognition of yellow yam as "Dioscorea rotundata var. × cayenensis"
- Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agricultural Handbook no. 505
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
attoto yam – Lagos yam – twelve-months yam – yellow Guinea yam – yellow yam – German
gelbe Yamswurzel – Portuguese (Brazil)
cará-do-Pará –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | only cult. |
6 | Other | | | | | origin w. Africa |
Cultivated
(only cult.)
Other
(origin w. Africa)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | vegetable | roots and tubers are eaten | Burkill, H. M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. 1:660. |