Taxon: Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. var. batatas

See other conspecific taxa:

• Ipomoea batatas (42 accessions)
• Ipomoea batatas var. apiculata (no accessions)

Common names:

• kuumara   (Source: F NZeal ) – English
  
• sweet-potato   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• kkumara   (Source: Esp Veg Prom ) – Aymara (Peru)
  
• tuktuka   (Source: Esp Veg Prom ) – Aymara (Peru)
  
• zoete aardappel   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Dutch
  
• yam   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English (United States)
  
• patate douce   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Batate   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Süßkartoffel   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• goguma   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:104.) – Transcribed Korean
  
• batata-doce   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• batata-da-terra   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• apichu   (Source: F EntreR ) – Quichua (Peru)
  
• batata   (Source: F EntreR ) – Spanish
  
• boniato   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• camote   (Source: F EntreR ) – Spanish
  
• papa dulce   (Source: Esp Veg Prom ) – Spanish (Venezuela)
  
• batat   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: starch   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (tubers widely used fide Dict Gard)
  
• Materials: alcohol   (fide G. W. Staples, pers. comm. 1996)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2, as I. batatas; Herbs Commerce ed2, as I. batatas)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Kellerman et al.)
  

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View toxicology references for Ipomoea batatas var. batatas from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• widely naturalized in tropics

• cultivated worldwide

• origin neotropics

References:

• Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios.
• Correa, J. E. & H. Y. Bernal. 1991. Especies vegetales promisorias de los paises del Convenio Andres Bello. 6:140–176. [= Ipomoea batatas].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. [= Ipomoea batatas].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. [poisonous].
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McDonald, J. A. & D. H. Austin. 1990. Changes and additions in Ipomoea section Batatas (Convolvulaceae). Brittonia 42:116–120.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. [= Ipomoea batatas].
• 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.
• Roullier, C. et al. 2011. Combining chloroplast and nuclear microsatellites to investigate origin and dispersal of New World sweet potato landraces. Molec. Ecol. 20:3963–3977. [this study found evidence based on plastid SSR for two independent areas of domestication with two different sets of genotypes].
• Srisuwan, S. et al. 2006. The origin and evolution of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) and its wild relatives through the cytogenetic approaches. Pl. Sci. (Elsevier) 171:424–433.
• Staples, G. W. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].

Synonyms:

• (≡) Convolvulus batatas L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Convolvulus fastigiatus Roxb.
  
• (=) Ipomoea fastigiata (Roxb.) Sweet
  

Check other web resources for Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. var. batatas:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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