Taxon: Amorphophallus konjac K. Koch

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

Common names:

• devil's-tongue   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• elephant-yam   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• konjac   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• leopard-palm   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• snake-palm   (Source: Dict Gard [as A. rivieri]) – English
  
• umbrella arum   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• hua mo yu   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• mo yu   (Source: Cui et al.) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• stinkende Titanenwurz   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• konnyaku   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• konjak-knölkalla   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: emulsifier   (fide Pl Res SEAs 9:45. 1996)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Thompson, pers. comm. 1996)
  
• Human food: starch   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (only tubers fide Dict Gard; F JapanOhwi)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Yunnan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Vietnam

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Indochina
  Malesia: Indonesia; Philippines
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. [= A. rivieri Durieu].
• Cui, X. et al. 1995. Ethnobotany of Chinese drug Mo Yu (Amorphophallus konjac). J. Pl. Resources Environm. 4:38–40.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Flach, M. & F. Rumawas, eds. 1996. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 9:45=50.
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 2002. World checklist and bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae).
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [= A. rivieri ‘Konjac’].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [= A. rivieri ‘Konjac’].
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Nicolson, D. H. 1984. Aroideana 7:7–8.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• 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.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Thompson, S. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Yunnan Inst. Bot. & Kunming Inst. Bot. Acad. Sci., eds. 1977–. Flora yunnanica.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Amorphophallus konjac.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Amorphophallus konjac.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Amorphophallus konjac.

Synonyms:

• (=) Amorphophallus rivieri Durieu ex Carrière
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Amorphophallus rivieri var. konjac (K. Koch) Engl.
  

Check other web resources for Amorphophallus konjac K. Koch:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• 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
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Amorphophallus konjac cultivars
• 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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