Taxon: Dioscorea bulbifera L.
Genus: Dioscorea
Family: Dioscoreaceae.
Nomen number: 14186
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).
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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
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Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- AFRICA
East Tropical Africa: Tanzania; Uganda West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon West Tropical Africa: Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
China: China [e. & s.]
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia - Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia [n.]
Naturalized: - widely naturalized elsewhere
- Arnold, H. L.
1968. Poisonous plants of Hawaii. (Poison Hawaii)
- Bosser, J. M. et al., eds.
1976–. Flores des Mascareignes. (F Mascar)
- Burkill, H. M.
1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. (Use Pl WT Afr)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
- Conant, P. et al.
1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In J. O. Luken & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. (Pl Invasion)
- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
- Davidse, G. et al., eds.
1994. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- 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)
9:85–89.
- 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.
1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
- 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)
- Merrill, E. D.
1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. (F Philipp)
- 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.
1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
- Wagner, W. L. et al.
1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i. (F Hawaii)
- Watson, J. F.
1868. Index to the native and scientific names of Indian and other eastern economic plants and products. (Names Watson)
- Wilkin, P.
2001. Dioscoreaceae of south-central Africa.
Kew Bull.
56:379.
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Synonyms:
Check other databases for Dioscorea bulbifera 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
- 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:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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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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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?14186 (09 February 2010)
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