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Taxon:
Dioscorea praehensilis
Benth.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Dioscorea
Family:
Dioscoreaceae
Nomen number:
14242
Place of publication:
J. D. Hooker & G. Bentham in W. J. Hooker, Niger Fl. 536. 1849
Comment:
authorship verified from original literature
Verified:
03/27/2006
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 liebrechtsiana
De Wild. & T. Durand
No images
Reference(s)
Akoroda, M. O.
1985. Pollination management for controlled hybridization of white yam. Sci. Hort. 25:201-209.
Bhattacharjee, R. et al.
2011. Chapter 4.
Dioscorea
. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, industrial crops 71-96.
Burkill, H. M.
1985-2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa.
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute.
African flowering plants database (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php
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
Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards.
1989-. Flora of Ethiopia
Note:
Eritrea added in 2000
Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953-1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
Magwé-Tindo, J. et al.
2018. Guinea yam (
Dioscorea
spp., Dioscoreaceae) wild relatives identified using whole plastome phylogenetic analyses. Taxon 67:905-915.
URL:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax
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
Ramser, J. et al.
1997. Molecular marker based taxonomy and phylogeny of Guinea yam (
Dioscorea rotundata
-
D. cayenensis
). Genome 40:903-915.
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
Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
Note:
mentions
Wilkin, P.
2001. Dioscoreaceae of south-central Africa. Kew Bull. 56:390.
PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
bush yam –
Reference(s)
forest yam –
Reference(s)
white yam –
Reference(s)
Distribution
Exportable format
order_code
Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Africa
East Tropical Africa
Kenya
1
Native
Africa
East Tropical Africa
Tanzania
1
Native
Africa
East Tropical Africa
Uganda
1
Native
Africa
Northeast Tropical Africa
Ethiopia
1
Native
Africa
South Tropical Africa
Malawi
1
Native
Africa
South Tropical Africa
Mozambique
1
Native
Africa
South Tropical Africa
Zambia
1
Native
Africa
South Tropical Africa
Zimbabwe
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Benin
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Côte D'Ivoire
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Gambia
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Ghana
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Guinea-Bissau
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Mali
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Nigeria
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Senegal
1
Native
Africa
West Tropical Africa
Sierra Leone
Native
Africa
NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Ethiopia
EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Kenya
,
Tanzania
,
Uganda
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Benin
,
Côte D'Ivoire
,
Ghana
,
Gambia
,
Guinea-Bissau
,
Mali
,
Nigeria
,
Senegal
,
Sierra Leone
SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA:
Mozambique
,
Malawi
,
Zambia
,
Zimbabwe
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Human food
vegetable
fide Kew Bull 56:391. 2001
Wilkin, P.
2001. Dioscoreaceae of south-central Africa. Kew Bull. 56:390.
Name
References