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Taxon: Dioscorea alata L.

Genus: Dioscorea
Family: Dioscoreaceae.
Nomen number: 14175
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:1033. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 12-May-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-May-1995
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
FL*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • greater yam   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • Guyana arrowroot   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  • ten-months yam   (Source: Dict Econ Pl ) – English
  • water yam   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • white yam   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • winged yam   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  • yam   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • grande igname   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • igname ailée   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • igname de Chine   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 9:90.) – French
  • geflügelter Yam   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • wasser Yamswurzel   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  • inhame   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • ñame blanco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • ñame de agua   (Source: Dict Econ Pl ) – Spanish
  • tabena   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated in paleotropics

      Other:
  • origin tropical Asia

References:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78:1-581. (F St John)
  • Burkill, H. M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. (Use Pl WT Afr) 1:655–657.
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Flach, M. & F. Rumawas, eds. 1996. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 9:90.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
  • Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. (F Bhutan)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
  • Howard, R. 1979. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt) 3:506.
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1951. Flora malesiana. (F Males) ser 1, 4:330–331.
  • Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. (F VenGuay)
  • Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. (Dict Econ Pl)
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
  • Wilkin, P. 2001. Dioscoreaceae of south-central Africa. Kew Bull. 56:374.
  • Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
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Check other databases for Dioscorea alata L.:

  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
  • ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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