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Dioscorea spinosa

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Name

Identification
Dioscorea spinosa Wall. ex Hook. f. [family DIOSCOREACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Dioscorea sativa L. [family DIOSCOREACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by A.H.M.Jayasuriya, 1983 Dioscorea esculenta (Lour.) Burkill [family DIOSCOREACEAE ] Verified by C.Thapyai, 2003
Related name
  • Dioscorea esculenta
  • Dioscorea sativa
  • Dioscorea cymosula
  • Dioscorea spinosa

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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