Dioscoreaceae
Dioscorea

Dioscorea esculenta (Lour.) Burkill

First published in Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 1: 396 (1917)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical Asia. It is a climbing tuberous geophyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used as a medicine, has social uses and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya

Introduced into:

Andaman Is., Burkina, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, Cook Is., Cuba, Fiji, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Leeward Is., Madagascar, Maldives, Marianas, Mexico Central, Nansei-shoto, Nicobar Is., Niue, Pitcairn Is., Puerto Rico, Samoa, Seychelles, Society Is., Taiwan, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Wallis-Futuna Is., Windward Is.

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots'. Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.
  • Bhattacharya, R.P., Pal, D.C. & Pati, B.R. (2014). A sytematic census of monocot climbers of Bihar anf Jharkhand states. Indian Journal of Forestry 37: 317-324.
  • Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141.
  • Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Hang, Y.Y. (2020). Dioscoreaceae in China : color-illustrated Chinese and English bilingual edition: 1-476. Jiangsu Phoenix Science and Technology Press.
  • Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. (2016). Flora of Japan IVb: 1-335. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
  • Kotiya, A., Solanki, Y. & Reddy, G.V. (2020). Flora of Rajasthan: 1-769. Rajasthan state biodiversity board.
  • López Patiño, E.J., Szeszko, D.R., Rascala Pérez, J. & Beltrán Retis, A.S. (2012). The flora of the Tenacingo-Malinalco-Zumpahuacán protected natural area, state of Mexico, Mexico. Harvard Papers in Botany 17: 65-167.
  • Morat, P. & Veillon, J.-M. (1985). Contributions à la conaissance de la végétation et de la flore de Wallis et Futuna. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Section B, Adansonia 7: 259-329.
  • Pandey, R.P. & Dilwakar, P.G. (2008). An integrated check-list flora of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: 403-500.
  • Rahman, M.O. (2004). Second list of angiospermic taxa of Bangladesh not included in Hooker's 'Flora of British India' and Prain's 'Bengal Plants': series I. Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 11: 77-82.
  • Samanta, A.K. (2006). The genus Dioscorea L. in Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalayas - a census. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 30: 555-563.
  • Smith, A.C. (1979). Flora Vitiensis Nova. A new flora for Fiji (Spermatophytes only) 1: 1-495. Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, Lawai.
  • Sykes, W.R. (2016). Flora of the Cook Islands: 1-973. National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawaii.
  • Takeuchi, W. (2005). Floristic notes from a holocene successional environment in Papuasia. Harvard Papers in Botany 10: 95-116.
  • Thiombiano, A., Schmidt, M., Dressler, S., Ouédraogo, A., Hahn, K. & Zizka, G. (2012). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Burkina Faso. Boissiera 65: 1-391.
  • Whistler, W.A. (2022). Flora of Samoa Flowering Plants: 1-930. National Tropical Botanicl Garden. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
  • Wilder, G. P. (1934). The flora of Makatea CNV. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 120: 1-49.
  • Wilkin, P. & Thapyai, C. (2009). Flora of Thailand 10(1): 1-140. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Knuth in Engl., Pflanzenr. Dioscoreac. 4, 43: 189 (1924)
  • Miège in Rev. Bot. Appliq. 28: 509 (1948)
  • Miège, Contrib. Dioscoreac. 35 (1952).
  • Prain & Burkill in Ann Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 14: 80 (1936)
  • in Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 1: 396 (1917)

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots'. Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.
  • Bhattacharya, R.P., Pal, D.C. & Pati, B.R. (2014). A sytematic census of monocot climbers of Bihar anf Jharkhand states. Indian Journal of Forestry 37: 317-324.
  • Dy Phon, P. (2000). Dictionnaire des plantes utilisées au Cambodge: 1-915. Chez l'auteur, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
  • Fosberg, F.R. (1957). The Maldive islands, Indian Ocean. Atoll Research Bulletin 58: 1-37.
  • Hang, Y.Y. (2020). Dioscoreaceae in China : color-illustrated Chinese and English bilingual edition: 1-476. Jiangsu Phoenix Science and Technology Press.
  • López Patiño, E.J., Szeszko, D.R., Rascala Pérez, J. & Beltrán Retis, A.S. (2012). The flora of the Tenacingo-Malinalco-Zumpahuacán protected natural area, state of Mexico, Mexico. Harvard Papers in Botany 17: 65-167.
  • Morat, P. & Veillon, J.-M. (1985). Contributions à la conaissance de la végétation et de la flore de Wallis et Futuna. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Section B, Adansonia 7: 259-329.
  • Pandey, R.P. & Dilwakar, P.G. (2008). An integrated check-list flora of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: 403-500.
  • Sykes, W.R. (2016). Flora of the Cook Islands: 1-973. National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawaii.
  • Thiombiano, A., Schmidt, M., Dressler, S., Ouédraogo, A., Hahn, K. & Zizka, G. (2012). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Burkina Faso. Boissiera 65: 1-391.
  • Whistler, W.A. (2022). Flora of Samoa Flowering Plants: 1-930. National Tropical Botanicl Garden. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
  • Wilder, G. P. (1934). The flora of Makatea CNV. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 120: 1-49.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Burkill HM. (1995). The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vols. 1-3. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vols 1-3.
  • Cámara-Leret, R., & Dennehy, Z. (2019). Information gaps in indigenous and local knowledge for science-policy assessments. Nature Sustainability 2:736-741.
  • Dempewolf, H., Eastwood, R. J., Guarino, L., Khoury, C. K., Müller, J. V. & Toll, J. (2014). Adapting agriculture to climate change: a global initiative to collect, conserve, and use crop wild relatives. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 38, 369-377.
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • Jansen, P., Lemmens, R., Oyen, L., Siemonsma, J., Stavast, F. & Van Valkenburg, J. (1991) Plant Resources of South-East Asia. Basic list of species and commodity grouping. Final version. Pudoc, Wageningen.
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • PROTA (2021). Plants Resources of Tropical Africa. https://prota4u.org/database/
  • RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/
  • Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2009 Hul, S.; Leti, M.; Kim, S.; Drouart, N. [MNS014] Cambodia K000062167 Yes
Dec 1, 1983 Cuming, H. [781] Philippines K000098335 Isotype Yes
Dec 1, 1983 Cuming, H. [781] Philippines K000098334 Type Yes
Collins, D.J. [1045] Thailand K001143631 Yes
Hopkins, H.C.F. [2030] Papua New Guinea K001144935 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [284] Singapore K001144703 Yes
Flynn, T. [3251] United States K001145193 Yes
Vogt, G.B. [BU-3] Burma K001142143 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [293] Singapore K001143641 Yes
Kerr, A.F.G. [20475] Thailand K001143639 Yes
Wisse, C.A. [397] Indonesia K001144225 Yes
s.coll [280] Singapore K001143056 Yes
Collins, D.J. [256] Thailand K001143633 Yes
Hauiff, M. [641] Malaysia K001143051 Yes
s.coll [1884] Thailand K001143638 Yes
Seemann, B.C. [629] Fiji K001145191 Yes
Darnaedi, D. [D721] Indonesia K001144227 Yes
Pooma, R. [4658] Thailand K001143646 Yes
Yuncker, T.G. [9811] Niue K001145186 Yes
Kiah [35416] Malaysia K001143050 Yes
Merrill, E.D. [202] Philippines K001144708 Yes
Millar, A.N. [9717] Papua New Guinea K001144943 Yes
Hooker, J.D. [s.n.] India K001142130 Yes
Henderson, M.R. [22841] Malaysia K001143052 Yes
Merrill, E.D. [4147] Philippines K001144719 Yes
Henty, E.E. [41948] Papua New Guinea K001144937 Yes
Kerr, A.F.G. [15387] Thailand K001143634 Yes
Elmer, A.D.E. [6421] Philippines K001144706 Yes
s.coll [18149] K001142134 Yes
Mantor, A. [135941] Malaysia K001144228 Yes
Hooker, J.D.; Thomson, T. [s.n.] India K001142140 Yes
Burkill, H.M. [296] Singapore K001143053 Yes
A.H.G. [s.n.] India K001142132 Yes
Barthelat, F.; Mchangama, M.; Sifary, A.B. [270] Mayotte K001148345 Yes
McGregor, R.C. [392] Guam K001145189 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [284] Singapore K001144715 Yes
Whitmore, T.C. [724] Solomon Islands K001145192 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [288] Singapore K001143642 Yes
Loher, A. [1897] Philippines K001144718 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [300] Singapore K001142138 Yes
Yuncker, T.G. [10094] Niue K001145187 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [288] Singapore K001143644 Yes
Rouillard, G. [17579] Mauritius K001148347 Yes
Herb Wright [s.n.] K001142136 Yes
Vogt, G.B. [BU-3] Burma K001142141 Yes
Branderhorst [295] Indonesia K001144936 Yes
Burkill, H.M. [300] Singapore K001143054 Yes
Lace, J.H. [4494] Burma K001142142 Yes
s.coll [26-21] Puerto Rico K001149154 Yes
Merrill, E.D. [677] Philippines K001144707 Yes
Henty, E.E. [41952] Papua New Guinea K001144939 Yes
s.coll [s.n.] K001144720 No
Burkill, H.M. [298] Singapore K001143055 Yes
Walker [s.n.] Sri Lanka K001142137 Yes
Kerr, A. [11021] Thailand K001143632 Yes
Adams, C.D.; Shafeeq, A. [14979] Maldives K001142145 Yes
Frodin, D.G. [4321] Papua New Guinea K001144940 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [274] Singapore K001144702 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [290] Singapore K001143643 Yes
Loher, A. [3805] Philippines K001144717 Yes
s.coll [s.n.] K001142144 Yes
Irvine, F.R. [2579] Ghana K001145534 Yes
Kerr, A.F.G. [19863] Thailand K001143637 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [280] Singapore K001144705 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [286] Singapore K001142139 Yes
Waterhouse, J.H.L. [971] Papua New Guinea K001144933 Yes
s.coll [324] Seychelles K001148346 Yes
Thwaites [s.n.] Sri Lanka K001142135 Yes
Barber, C.A. [747 [?]] India K001142131 Yes
Schlechter, F.R.R. [18914] Papua New Guinea K001144945 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [294] Singapore K001144714 Yes
Kerr, A.F.G. [9051] Thailand K001143636 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K000913632 Unknown Type Material Yes
Herb Rottlerianum [s.n.] India K001142133 Yes
Beguin [2093] Indonesia K001144226 Yes
Frodin [s.n.] Papua New Guinea K001144942 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [276] Singapore K001144704 Yes
Sulit, M.D.; Conklin, H.C. [17619] Philippines K001144711 Yes
Schlechter, F.R.R. [18914] Papua New Guinea K001144944 Yes
Sulit, M.D.; Conklin, H.C. [17619] Philippines K001144709 Yes
Adduru, M. [134] Philippines K001144710 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [276] Singapore K001144713 Yes
Frodin [s.n.] Papua New Guinea K001144941 Yes
s.coll [7597] Indonesia K001144224 Yes
Henty, E.E. [41951] Papua New Guinea K001144938 Yes
Henry, A. [856] Taiwan K001141567 Yes
s.coll [278] Singapore K001143058 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [292] Singapore K001143640 Yes
Elmer, A.D.E. [10293] Philippines K001144716 Yes
Rodin, R.J. [597] Guam K001145188 Yes
Brass, L.J. [867] Papua New Guinea K001144934 Yes
Williams, R.O. [s.n.] Grenada K001149152 Yes
s.coll [31923] Puerto Rico K001149153 Yes
s.coll [s.n.] Vietnam K001143635 Yes
Floyd, A.G. [3537] Papua New Guinea K001144932 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [280] Singapore K001144712 Yes
Wilder, G.P. [1162] K001145190 Yes
s.coll [[296]] Singapore K001143057 Yes
Wilkin, P. [995] Thailand K001143645 Yes

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