Taxon: Dioscorea hispida Dennst.

• the 2 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• Asiatic bitter yam   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• intoxicating yam   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• bittere Yamswurzel   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• inhame   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: starch   (used mainly in times of famine fide F Males)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide F Males)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Dioscorea hispida from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Xizang [e.], Yunnan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India [w.]
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia [probably introd.]; Malaysia

References:

• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1951. Flora malesiana. 4:318–320.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Dioscorea hispida.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Dioscorea hispida.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Dioscorea hispida.

Synonyms:

• (=) Dioscorea daemona Roxb.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Dioscorea hispida Dennst.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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