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March 2019

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Dioscorea esculenta (Lour.) Burkill

This species name was first published in Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 1: 396 (1917)  

At the time of this classification snapshot, this species name was accepted by WFO (placed as the accepted name of a taxon). Its description and other taxonomic data can be found on World Flora Online, id: wfo-0000390601.

Synonyms of Dioscorea esculenta (Lour.) Burkill

Name Author Protologue Nomenclator WFO link
Dioscorea esculenta var. fasciculata (Roxb.) Prain & Burkill J. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 10: 19 1914 wfo-0000390602
Dioscorea esculenta var. tiliifolia (Kunth) Fosberg & Sachet Micronesica 20: 135 1978 wfo-0000390603
Dioscorea fasciculata Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 1832 3: 801 1832 wfo-0000390616
Dioscorea papillaris Blanco Fl. Filip. 801 1837 wfo-0000393275
Dioscorea papuana Warb. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 13: 273 1891 wfo-0000393282
Dioscorea spinosa Roxb. ex Hook.f. Fl. Brit. India 6: 291 1892 wfo-0000395526
Dioscorea tiliifolia Kunth Enum. Pl. 5: 401 1850 wfo-0000396003
Dioscorea tugui Blanco Fl. Filip. 800 1837 wfo-0000396357
Oncorhiza esculentus (Lour.) Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 374 1805 wfo-0000479302
Oncus esculentus Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 194 1790 wfo-0000479420
Dioscorea aculeata var. spinosa (Prain) Roxb. ex Prain & Burkill J. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 10: 20 1914 wfo-0000619347
Dioscorea esculenta var. spinosa (Prain) R.Knuth Pflanzenr. IV, 43: 189 1924 wfo-0000619359
Dioscorea aculeata Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 1832 3: 800 1832 wfo-0000794019
Dioscorea esculenta var. fulvidotomentosa R.Knuth Pflanzenr. IV, 43: 190 1924 wfo-0000794027
Dioscorea fasciculata var. spinosa Prain Bengal Pl. 2: 1066 1903 wfo-0000834338
Dioscorea esculenta var. esculenta wfo-0001249903
Dioscorea esculenta var. fasciculata (Roxb.) R. Knuth wfo-0001249904