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Taxon:
Dioscorea esculenta
(Lour.) Burkill
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Dioscorea
Family:
Dioscoreaceae
Nomen number:
14204
Place of publication:
Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. ser. 3, 1:396. 1917
Verified:
03/09/1995
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
Basionym
Oncus esculentus
Lour.
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Dioscorea aculeata
L.
Dioscorea fasciculata
Roxb.
Invalid Designation(s)
Dioscorea sativa
auct.
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Reference(s)
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
www.skud.info
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. 1:663.
Chu, E. P. & R. C. L. Figueiredo-Ribeiro.
1991. Native and exotic species of
Dioscorea
used as food in Brazil. Econ. Bot. 45:467-479.
URL:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/12231
Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
1980-. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
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+esculenta&quantity=1
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Howard, R.
1979. Flora of the lesser Antilles. 3:508-509.
Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
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
Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed.
1948-. Flora malesiana.
Uphof, J. C. T.
1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
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
English
Asiatic yam –
Reference(s)
Chinese yam –
Reference(s)
lesser yam –
Reference(s)
French
igname des blancs –
Reference(s)
German
chinesischer Yam –
Reference(s)
Portuguese
inhame-de-São –
Reference(s)
Portuguese (Brazil)
inhame –
Reference(s)
Spanish
batata de China –
Reference(s)
Swedish
småjams –
Reference(s)
Transcribed Chinese
gan shu –
Reference(s)
Distribution
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
n.e.
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Laos
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Myanmar
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Thailand
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Vietnam
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Papuasia
Indonesia
Papua Barat
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Papuasia
Papua New Guinea
2
Cultivated
also cult. in tropics
Native
Asia-Tropical
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India
(n.e.)
PAPUASIA:
Indonesia
[Papua Barat],
Papua New Guinea
INDO-CHINA:
Laos
,
Myanmar
,
Thailand
,
Vietnam
Cultivated
(also cult. in tropics)
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Human food
vegetable
Uphof, J. C. T.
1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
Name
References