Taxon: Dioscorea rotundata Poir.

Common names:

• white Guinea yam   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• igname blanc   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• igname de Guinée   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Guinea Yamswurzel   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• weißer Guinea Yam   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• ñame blanco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• ñame guineo blanco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (fide Use Pl WT Afr)
  

Distributional range:

• only cultivated

• origin w. Africa

References:

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam) 67.
• Burkill, H. M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. (Use Pl WT Afr) 1:667–668.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop) [= D. cayenensis Lam.].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr) [= D. cayenensis subsp. rotundata (Poir.) Miege].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• N'kounkou, J. S. 1996. Synthese taxonomique des Dioscorea (Dioscoreaceae) d'Afrique centrale (Congo, Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi). Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 41:598. [= D. cayenensis Lam.].
• 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)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr) [mentions].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Dioscorea rotundata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Dioscorea rotundata. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Dioscorea rotundata Poir.:

• 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.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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