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Plant Resources of South-East Asia
List of species
Introduction

Dioscorea L.

Protologue: Sp. pl.: 1032 (1753); Gen. pl. ed. 5: 456 (1754).

Family: Dioscoreaceae

Chromosome number: x= 10 (Old World),x= 9 (New World); 2n= 40, 60, 80, 100 (D. bulbifera); 2n= 40,
80 (D. pentaphylla)

Major species and synonyms

Dioscorea alata L. - see separate article.

Dioscorea bulbifera L., Sp. pl.: 1033 (1753), synonyms: D. sativa Thunb. (1784) et auct., non L. (1753),
D. crispata Roxb. (1832), D. heterophylla Roxb. (1832).

Dioscorea esculenta (Lour.) Burkill - see separate article.

Dioscorea hispida Dennst. - see separate article.

Dioscorea nummularia Lamk, Encycl. méth. 3: 231 (1789), synonyms: D. glabra Koorders (1898), non
Roxb. (1832), D. seemannii Prain & Burkill (1914), D. palauensis R. Knuth (1924).

Dioscorea pentaphylla L., Sp. pl.: 1032 (1753), synonyms: D. triphylla L. (1753), D. kleiniana Kunth
(1850).

Other Dioscorea species - see chapter on minor species yielding non-seed carbohydrates.

Vernacular names
General: Yam (En). Igname (Fr)
Indonesia: uwi (Javanese), huwi (Sundanese)
Malaysia: ubi
Papua New Guinea: yam
Philippines: yam, ubi
Cambodia: dâmlô:ng
Laos: man
Thailand: man
Vietnam: củnâu, củtừ.

D. bulbifera . Aerial yam, potato yam, bulbil-bearing yam (En). Igname bulbifère (Fr)
Indonesia: huwi buah (Sundanese), jebubug basu (Javanese), singal (Timor)
Malaysia: ubi atas, ubi china, ubi kestali
Papua New Guinea: lapma (Yatmei)

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Philippines: ubi-ubingan (Tagalog), aribukbuk (Ilokano), pulugan (Bikol) OK

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Cambodia: dâmlô:ng dü:hs, dâmlô:ng sdâm préi
Laos: man pauz (general), hwà 'i: mu:z (northern)
Thailand: wan-prachim (central), hampao (northern), man-soen (Nakhon Si Thammaraf)
Vietnam: củdại, khoai chồi, khoai dái.

D. nummularia
Indonesia: huwi upas (Sundanese), uwi in tuwa (Sulawesi), tatopo (Halmahera), singgo (Kem, Irian Jaya)
Papua New Guinea: boku
Philippines: pakit (Tagalog), baen di ipay an napagatan (Ifugao)
Vietnam: từtròn, củtừtròn.

D. pentaphylla . Sand yam, fibrous yam, ginger yam (En)

Indonesia: ubi pasir, huwi sawut, huwi jahe
Malaysia: ubi pasir, jabet, ubi katak
Philippines: lima-lima (Tagalog), sapang (Bisaya), kasi (Igorot)
Cambodia: dâmlô:ng tük
Laos: hwà 'i: mu:z (general), hwà 'è:ng mu: (northern)
Thailand: man-makmu (Chiang Mai), man-khankhao (Suphan Buri), man-sue (Nakhon Si Thammarat)
Vietnam: củvằn.

Origin and geographic distribution

Dioscorea probably originated in the Far East but spread in early times in the Old and New World. It then
evolved independently, as no overlap occurs. Only one species is naturally common to the continents of Africa
and Asia. About 600 species are known, mainly occurring in the tropics and subtropics, and about 60 species
are gathered or cultivated for their edible tubers. In South-East Asia about 60 species occur, about 20 of which
produce edible tubers or bulbils.

D. bulbifera . The most prolific and widespread of all Dioscorea spp., occurring from the Atlantic coast
of Africa to the remotest islands of the Pacific. It is the only major edible yam native to two continents. It
occurs wild and is cultivated all over South-East Asia.

D. nummularia . A common wild and cultivated yam in eastern Malesia (Philippines, Sabah, northern
Sulawesi, northern Moluccas, northern New Guinea) extending to Pacific islands as far as Tahiti.

D. pentaphylla . Wild and cultivated, distributed from upper India and southern China throughout South-
East Asia to the remoter islands of the Pacific.

The most important cultivated species in other continents are D. cayenensis Lamk (yellow Guinea yam) and D.
rotundata Poiret (white Guinea yam) in West Africa, D. trifida L. (cush-cush yam) in tropical America, and D.
batatas Decaisne (Chinese yam, syn. D. opposita Thunb.) in subtropical eastern Asia. The most widely used
wild species in times of food scarcity in Africa is D. dumetorum (Kunth) Pax (African bitter or cluster yam),
which also occurs in cultivation.

Uses
Yams are collected or cultivated for their edible tubers, providing a staple carbohydrate food in many tropical
countries. In some cases yam plants also produce edible bulbils in the axils of the leaves. As a staple food,
yams are most important in West Africa. Normally, the tubers are peeled and eaten boiled, roasted or fried.

Dioscorea species are widely used in traditional medicine. Tubers of some wild species are commercially
exploited because of the steroidal sapogenins they contain, from which contraceptives, sex hormones and
cortisone are manufactured.

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D. bulbifera . The bulbils are especially used for food, but their edibility varies
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greatly. Bulbils from wild
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plants are peeled, sliced, washed, boiled for a long time and sometimes still have to be soaked in water to
remove toxic substances before they can be eaten. In Java, bulbils from cultivated plants (called
"gedebug", "katak" or "katigubug" in Javanese) are edible after peeling and cooking. The cooked bulbils
are greenish-yellow, pappy and taste bitter. Old bulbils are the most tasty. Underground tubers, when
produced, are also used for food. They are edible in cultivars, but nauseous and poisonous in wild plants.
In Peninsular Malaysia, the Semang prepare a dough by grating the tubers and kneading them with lime
in a coconut shell. The dough is then wrapped in a plantain leaf and roasted, or buried in the earth and
allowed to ferment. The fermented paste will keep for a week. The dough is called "kleb" when roasted
and "koyi" when fermented. The tubers of wild plants become increasingly unpalatable as the time of
new growth approaches. They are bitter and acrid and, when prepared, they are cooked sliced after
adding lime and wood ashes. Both bulbils and tubers are occasionally used to produce starch and flour.

D. nummularia . The tubers are used for food and the tough stems are used as cordage. The tubers
descend deep into the soil and grow slowly, and are therefore not harvestable until about 3 years after
planting. Although it is common in its natural area of distribution, its use for food seems restricted to
times of scarcity. The tubers are never poisonous but are unpleasant to eat because of the saponins they
contain.

D. pentaphylla . The tubers are used for food, eaten roasted or boiled by themselves, or mixed in
vegetable dishes as a flavouring. The cultivated forms (often grown in garden hedges) are tastier than the
tubers collected from wild plants, which are often nauseous but non-toxic. Some forms are indicated as
priest's yams ("huwi mantri"), princess's yam ("huwi putri") or sacred yam ("huwi dewata") in Java,
perhaps referring to a time when the Hindu religion imposed fasts during which inferior food, such as
meal from inferior yams, might be eaten.

Production and international trade

World production of yam is estimated at about 25 million t from about 2.5 million ha. The main producers are
West Africa (95%, especially Nigeria and Ivory Coast, with predominantly D. cayenensis and D. rotundata ),
the West Indies (1%) and East Africa (1%). Most yam is consumed in the country of production and very small
amounts enter international trade. In South-East Asia, D. bulbifera , D. nummularia and D. pentaphylla are
cultivated to an appreciable extent. Papua New Guinea and the Philippines are the major producers and
consumers.

Properties
The approximate composition of yam per 100 g edible portion is: water 65-75 g, protein 1-2.5 g, fat 0.05-0.2 g,
carbohydrates (mainly starch) 15-25 g, fibre 0.5-1.5 g, ash 0.7-2 g, ascorbic acid 8-10 mg. The loss on peeling
is usually 5-15%. The ascorbic acid is retained during cooking, hence yams contain sufficient vitamin C to be
important in nutrition.

Some wild yam species contain toxic alkaloids like dioscorine or dihydrodioscorine, which cause general
paralysis of the central nervous system if not removed before eating. Some wild species contain 2-5%
sapogenins, the most important of which is diosgenin.

D. bulbifera . Per 100 g edible portion the bulbil contains: water 63-67 g, protein 1.12-1.50 g, fat 0.04 g,
carbohydrates 27-33 g, fibre 0.70-0.73 g and ash 1.08-1.51 g. Starch granules are triangular and 5-45μm
in diameter, with a gelatinization temperature of 72-80°C. Starch prepared from the bulbils contains
13.5% moisture, 15.0% amylose, 1.49% protein, 0.29% ash, pH of 4.4, and iodine absorption of 3.9.
Viscosity at 95°C is 25 Barbender units, and the gel is not strong.

D. nummularia . Per 100 g edible portion the tuber contains: water 71.9 g, protein 2.0 g, fat 0.06 g,
carbohydrates 23.62 g (starch 23.4 g, sugar 0.22 g), fibre 1.84 g and ash 0.95 g. Lysine is the limiting
amino acid.

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D. pentaphylla . Per 100 g edible portion the tuber contains: water 82.5 g, protein 1.65 g, fat 0.03 g,
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carbohydrates 14.02 g (starch 13.9 g, sugar 0.12 g), fibre 0.66 g and ash 0.76 g.

Description
Dioecious perennial plants, in cultivation usually grown as annuals, with underground rhizome, or more often a
woody corm giving off well-defined parenchymatous tubers, sometimes at the end of long stalks; tubers
perennial and lignified, or renewed annually as in most edible yams, varying greatly in number, size and form.
Roots thick, fleshy and unbranched, or thin, fibrous and branching, sometimes spiny. Stem climbing and
twining, 2-12(-40) m long, tough, often woody at the base and winged or with longitudinal ridges; the direction
of twining, to the right (dextrorse) with clockwise circumnutation or to the left (sinistrorse) with anticlockwise
circumnutation, is constant per species and characteristic of whole sections of the genus. Leaves usually
alternate, simple, cordate, acuminate (apex pointing downwards), palmately veined or palmately compound
with 3-5 lobes or leaflets pinnately veined; petiole with a pulvinus at each end. Axillary buds often more than
one per axil, arranged vertically with the youngest lowest, sometimes developing into a bulbil serving as a
storage organ. Inflorescence unisexual, racemose or spike-like; male flowers usually small and green, opening
only slightly at anthesis, perianth in 2 whorls of 3 segments, stamens 6, all fertile or 3 staminodal; female
flowers usually produced in much smaller numbers, perianth lobes more fleshy, opening more widely at
anthesis, ovary 3-locular, style columnar, stigmas 3. Fruit a dehiscent trilocular capsule, 3-winged or strongly
angled, 1-3 cm long. Seed flattened, partly or completely winged at its margin.

D. bulbifera . Tuber produced superficially in the soil, swelling downwards from a rather thick
attachment, replaced annually, solitary, globose to pyriform, usually densely covered with rough short
roots. Stem twining to the left, climbing up to 6 m tall, usually without hairs, wings or spines. Leaves
alternate, simple, broad or long ovate-cordate, up to 20(-32) cm × 20(-32) cm, acuminate; secondary
veins conspicuously ladder-like; upper surface shiny, slightly bullate between veins, bluish bloom;
petiole half as long to as long as the blade, sometimes winged; auricles usually absent but when present
subfoliaceous, partly embracing the stem. Bulbils numerous, usually in leaf axils but sometimes
displacing male flowers at the base of flowering axes, small ones usually warty, large ones also smooth
or angled, often kidney-shaped, 2.5-5 cm in diameter, flattened, grey to brown, usually weighing 0.5 kg
but up to 2 kg; flesh usually pale yellow tinted with violet, when cut, oxidizing to orange, very
mucilaginous. Male inflorescence pendulous, 1-4 from the axil of a bract, up to 1 m long with up to 100
flowers; flowers pinky green to white. Female inflorescence pendulous, 1-2 per leaf axil, with about 40
flowers; flowers pediceled, with tepals free. Fruit long and elliptical, 20-22 mm × 8-9 mm, reflexed,
winged, shiny brown. Seed winged.

D. nummularia . Tuber spindle-shaped, produced deep in the soil, diameter increasing gradually towards
the tip, up to 1 m long and 6 cm in diameter, solitary or sometimes 2 or more; flesh white. Stem twining
to the right, cylindrical, usually longer than 3 m, densely spiny at base, less so higher up, glabrous.
Leaves opposite or alternate, simple, hastate, up to 11 cm × 9 cm, glabrous, 5-7-veined, red-brown;
petiole up to 7 cm long; auricles rounded. Bulbils absent. Male inflorescence 1-4 together, aggregated on
downward-pointing leafless branches to 4 cm long with about 50 flowers. Female inflorescence 1-2
together, up to 15 cm long. Fruit red-brown, wings 20 mm × 22 mm.

D. pentaphylla . Tubers elongated and buried deeply, or globose, pyriform or lobed and produced
superficially in the soil; flesh white or lemon yellow, sometimes purple flecked. Stem twining to the left,
up to 7 mm in diameter, up to 10 m long, usually abundantly prickly in lowest part, glabrescent. Leaves
alternate, 3-5-palmately compound, deep rusty red or dirty white pubescent; middle leaflet broadly
oblanceolate to obovate, up to 15 cm × 4.5 cm. Bulbils numerous, globose to shortly ellipsoid, brown.
Male inflorescence on long leafless branches, bearing 50 flowers each on 3 cm long pedicels. Female
inflorescence pendulous, 1-3 together per leaf axil, up to 25 cm long, red pubescent. Fruit blackish, wings
up to 20 mm × 6 mm, pubescent.

Growth and development

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Four phases can be distinguished in a generalized growth cycle of the yam plant (7-9 months form planting to
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harvesting). In the first phase a profuse root system and a vine develop, the plant depending on nutrients stored
in the parent set. In D. rotundata this phase lasts about 6 weeks. In the second phase the foliage develops. In D.
rotundata the canopy is fully formed between weeks 6 and 10 after planting. Root growth continues until week
10, after which root mass remains constant. Vine growth continues until week 13. During the second phase the
new plant becomes independent from the parent set. Tuber initiation occurs at week 10-11 and for species that
flower, flowering begins approximately at this time. The third phase is characterized by an increase in tuber
bulk, which continues until the end of the season. In this phase the fruit also develops. In the fourth phase the
shoot senesces and dies back, and the tuber enters a dormant period lasting 2-3 months. The exact duration of
each phase varies with the species.

Bulbil production begins when the plant has matured to a certain extent. Bulbils develop in the axils of new
leaves and this continues until the end of the season, with old bulbils maturing and dropping off while new ones
form closer to the shoot tip. New bulbils arise from the bulbil primordia in the leaf axils. D. bulbifera flowers
profusely (north of the equator in September, south in May), and produces seed abundantly.

Other botanical information

The taxonomy of the genus Dioscorea has not stabilized yet because essential information is still missing.
Important characteristics are (in order of importance): underground parts, direction of twining, the seeds
(wings, colour, shape), the position of the capsules, the shape of the torus of the flower, the degree of
segregation of male and female flowers, anatomical features (hairs, glands, etc.).

Most species with edible tubers or bulbils are rather variable. Many cultivars are known.

For D. bulbifera 4 botanical varieties have been distinguished in South-East Asia: var. bulbifera (wild
plants, tubers and bulbils acrid and nauseous, leaves shortly cordate, the most common variety); var.
heterophylla (Roxb.) Prain & Burkill (as var. bulbifera but with elongated cordate leaves, occurring in
Peninsular Malaysia); var. suavior Prain & Burkill (cultivated or semicultivated plants, tubers and bulbils
may be slightly acrid and nauseous, bulbils dark grey-brown, warty, occurring in Java, Madura, Buru,
Halmahera, south-eastern New Guinea and the islands eastward); var. sativa Prain (as var. suavior but
with large, smooth, pale yellow bulbils, occurring in Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Java, New Guinea,
Pacific islands, India ("otaheite potato"), Japan).

Plants from Africa (with small hairs and curiously angled bulbils) have been collectively called var.
anthropophagorum (Chev.) Prain & Burkill.

Well-known cultivars from D. bulbifera include: "Thuma" (New Caledonia), "Poison" (Hawaii), "Smooth
Angled" (Puerto Rico).

D. nummularia resembles D. cayenensis from West Africa but its tubers are formed deep in the soil.

D. pentaphylla is very variable. In South-East Asia the following varieties have been distinguished: var.
pentaphylla (the most common, general form, perhaps including "huwi sawut" from Java with small,
cylindrical, unbranched tubers); var. malaica Prain & Burkill (more than twice their diameter elongated
tubers, abundantly red pubescent, leaflets narrow, middle one 4 times as long as broad, occurring in
Peninsular Malaysia, northern Borneo, the Philippines); var. papuana Burkill (tubers not elongated,
usually lobed, not flattened, covered with roots, large vigorous plants, leaflets to 20 cm long, red
pubescent, distal leaves usually simple, flowers large, occurring in New Guinea); var. javanica Burkill
(as var. papuana but plant smaller, leaflets to 10 cm long, flowers smaller, occurring in Java ("huwi
jahe"), Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Islands); var. palmata Burkill (tubers flattened, smooth-skinned, leaflets
to 20 cm long, silvery pubescent, flowers relatively large, occurring in Timor, the Philippines); var.
sacerdotalis Burkill (as var. palmata but leaflets to 14 cm long and flowers and tubers smaller, occurring
in Java ("huwi mantri", "huwi putri", "huwi dewata"), Kangean Islands).

Ecology
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Most yam species are essentially tropical plants, not tolerating any frost. Optimum rainfall is 1500 mm/year or
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more, well distributed over the growing season. Areas with more than 3-4 dry months per year are unsuitable.
Although yam is relatively tolerant of dry conditions for survival, without ample moisture (rainfall or
irrigation) tuber production is poor. Optimum average temperatures during growth are 25-30°C. Short days tend
to favour tuber formation and high light intensities are favourable. Yams need fertile soils (more than e.g.
cassava or sweet potato), rich in organic matter, preferably loamy, and well drained, since they do not tolerate
waterlogging.

D. bulbifera will grow well in areas with 1000 mm rainfall per year. It prefers low elevations, but has been
found growing in the Himalayas up to 1800 m and in Yunnan to 2700 m altitude.

The ecological requirements of D. pentaphylla are mostly like those of D. bulbifera .

Propagation and planting

Dioscorea is usually propagated by tubers. D. bulbifera is propagated by bulbils or by tubers. Bulbil dormancy
is most pronounced immediately after harvest, and declines steadily with time in storage. The dormancy has
been ascribed to batatasins (phenolic compounds) in the outer tissues of the bulbil, and abscissic acid
distributed throughout the bulbil. Bulbil sprouting is promoted by exogenous application of benzyl adenine or
indole-acetic acid, and inhibited by exogenous application of gibberellic acid. In D. bulbifera the planted bulbil
sprouts from the end near its previous point of attachment to the parent plant. The larger the bulbil or bulbil
piece used for planting, the more robust the resulting plant.

D. nummularia and D. pentaphylla are propagated by means of tubers. They are planted on mounds, ridges, or
on the flat. Intercropping with other food crops is common.

Husbandry
Plants are staked soon after emergence. Weeding is done repeatedly throughout the season. Fertilizer or
pesticide use is rare. In general, yam is the first crop in the rotation after fallow.

Diseases and pests

Fungal leaf spots afflict most of the species in the field. D. bulbifera is moderately susceptible to attack by the
yam nematode ( Scutellonema bradys ).

Harvesting
In D. bulbifera older bulbils mature as new ones are produced towards the apex. Repetitive harvesting is
therefore necessary to remove mature bulbils. The main tuber harvest occurs 9-24 months after planting, when
the entire plant senesces. For the other species, tubers are harvested from wild or cultivated plants, using
manual digging implements. Some plants may be deliberately left to grow for 2-3 years before harvesting.
Harvesting is made more difficult in D. nummularia by the dense spines at the base of the stem, and the deep
location of the tuber in the soil.

Yields The greatest bulbil yields of D. bulbifera in trials in Puerto Rico were 19.5 t/ha from cultivar "Thuma",
while the greatest tuber yields were 22.1 t/ha for cultivar "Poison", which also had the highest combined yield
(32.7 t/ha) of tuber plus bulbil.

Genetic resources

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Yam collections are held by the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI),
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Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural
Experiment Station, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

Breeding
For food production, breeding should aim at achieving a higher harvest index so that more of the dry matter is
stored in the economic part (bulbil or tuber), at decreasing the bitter, poisonous or acrid principles (mainly
alkaloids, saponins, and phenols), at reducing the time taken to mature, at increasing the ease of harvest (less
spininess and shallower tubers), and at increasing overall yield. For diosgenin production, an increased
diosgenin content would be a desirable breeding objective.

Prospects
For food, D. bulbifera , D. nummularia and D. pentaphylla are certainly minor yams which can hardly compete
with the agronomically well-established yams, i.e. D. alata and D. esculenta . They are even less likely to be
able to compete with the African yams (especially D. rotundata ) on a global scale. Their main role will remain
a reserve food in times of scarcity, primarily in subsistence farming systems. For industrial purposes, research
should focus on further elucidation of the composition of these tubers and bulbils, and whether any of their
contents (e.g. starches, sapogenins) have any particularly advantageous characteristics that will warrant
economic exploitation.

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Authors
I.C. Onwueme

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