| Dioscorea esculenta (Lour.) Burkill |
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| Family : DIOSCOREACEAE |
| Protologue : Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 1: 396, pl. 17 (1917) |
| Information on the genus : Dioscorea |
| Basionym : Oncus esculentus Lour. |
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Status
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| Status for MA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Homotypic |
 Oncus esculentus Lour. (1790) |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Dioscorea aculeata L. (1754) |
| =Dioscorea papuana Warb. (1891) |
| =Dioscorea tiliifolia Kunth (1850) |
| =Dioscorea fasciculata Roxb. (1814) |
| =Dioscorea fasciculata var. spinosa Prain |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Climber to 10-12 m, left-twining; with numerous shallow-rooted tubers, digitate or ovate or globose in cultivated forms, c. 12-15x16-20 cm, crown with thicker roots and rigid thorny roots; indumentum of T-shaped hairs on all parts of plant; stems annual, terete; leaves alternate, simple; blade ± ovate, chartaceous, 7-9-veined, base cordate, apex acuminate; petiole 6-14 cm long, terete; inflorescences pendent, simple, 1-2 per leaf axil; male ones racemose, flowers solitary; female ones spicate; capsule very rarely set; seeds unknown. |
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| Ecology : |
One of the 3 major cultigens of Dioscorea (Fl. Zambes. 12/2: 109, 2009). |
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Probably of SE-Asian origin, now widely grown for its edible tubers; introduced “recently” (Burkill, l.c.) to W Africa, under cultivation around the coast, in particular from Ivory Coast to Nigeria. |
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| Biol./Eco : |
Vine, Geophyte; distribution: Comoros, Africa, |
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Bibliography for Tropical Africa :
- Cat. Pl. Vasc. Burkina Faso:60 (2012)
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
| see under Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden |
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| Record n°200245 created 2009-02-11 - modified 2013-06-28 |
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