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Dioscorea esculenta

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Name

Identification
Dioscorea esculenta (Lour.) Prain & Burkill [family DIOSCOREACEAE ]
Related name
  • Dioscorea esculenta
Common name
  • anago té (FB) (TOGO, GBE-VHE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • σde-duanan, σdebσ duanan from σde: white yam; duanan: forty (FRI) (GHANA, AKAN-TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • brofié mbu (FB) (IVORY COAST, ABE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ant-wakσle = does not cross the Korle lagoon, i.e., is limited to Accra (FRI) (GHANA, GA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • biεfo hiε (FRI) (GHANA, ADANGME-KROBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • lesser yam; asiatic yam; lesser asiatic yam; ‘Chinese yam’ (general and Departments of Agriculture, in error); Hausa potato (Ghana, Irvine)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • igname des blancs (Busson)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • brofue duo (FB) (IVORY COAST, BAULE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • anago-tε = Lagos yam (FRI) yevu-tε (FRI) (GHANA, GBE-VHE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • iς̣u (IFE) iς̣u àlùbọ́sà (FRI; JMD) iς̣u ànàmọ́ (IFE) odunkun (IFE) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • brofué shie (FB) (IVORY COAST, AKYE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for Dioscorea esculenta (Lour.) Burkill [family DIOSCOREACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 3, Part 1,
Names
Dioscorea esculenta (Lour.) Burkill [family DIOSCOREACEAE], in Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 1: 396 (1917): Knuth l.c. 189; Prain & Burkill in Ann Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 14: 80 (1936); Miège in Rev. Bot. Appliq. 28: 509 (1948); Miège, Contrib. Dioscoreac. 35 (1952).
Dioscorea aculeata Linn. [family DIOSCOREACEAE], (1724), not of (1753)
Dioscorea fasciculata Roxb. [family DIOSCOREACEAE], (1832)
Dioscorea papuana Warburg [family DIOSCOREACEAE], (1891)
Dioscorea spinosa Roxb. ex Wall. [family DIOSCOREACEAE], (1830), name only
Dioscorea tiliifolia Kunth [family DIOSCOREACEAE], (1850)
Oncus esculentus Lour. [family ], (1790).
Information
Spiny climber 30-40 ft. high, lacking bulbils and with numerous (up to 40) stalked edible tubers independent of each other.
Range
Sparsely cultivated in coastal West Africa from Sierra Leone to E. Nigeria. Native of E. Asia.
Notes
In Africa the introduced clones are sterile.

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