Details for: PI 54900, Dioscorea alata L., 'Purple Ceylon'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Dioscorea alata L.

Cultivar:

'Purple Ceylon'

Origin:

Collected – Puerto Rico, United States

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

16 Mar 1922

PI Assigned:

1922

Inventory Volume:

70
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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Dioscorea alata L.

Cultivar:

'Purple Ceylon'

Origin:

Collected – Puerto Rico, United States

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

16 Mar 1922

PI Assigned:

1922

Source History

Collected

Puerto Rico, United States

Collector(s):

McClelland, T.B., Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Purple Ceylon'

Type: Cultivar name

Narrative

Dioscorea alata L.

Genus:

Dioscorea

Family:

Dioscoreaceae

Nomen number:

14175

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:1033. 1753

Protologue link:

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/359054

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

05/12/1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Dioscorea rubella Roxb.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	greater yam	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	Guyana arrowroot	1	Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
English	ten-months yam	1	Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
English	water yam	1	Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
English	white yam	1	Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
English	winged yam	1	1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
English	yam	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	grande igname	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	igname ailée	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	igname de Chine	2	Flach, M. & F. Rumawas, eds. 1996. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 9:90.
German	geflügelter Yam	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	wasser Yamswurzel	2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
Portuguese (Brazil)	cará	2	Siqueira, M. V. B. M. et al. 2014. Distribution, management and diversity of yam local varieties in Brazil: a study on Dioscorea alata L. Brazil. J. Biol. 75:104-113. DOI: 10.1590/1519-6984.08313.
Portuguese (Brazil)	cará branco	2	Siqueira, M. V. B. M. et al. 2014. Distribution, management and diversity of yam local varieties in Brazil: a study on Dioscorea alata L. Brazil. J. Biol. 75:104-113. DOI: 10.1590/1519-6984.08313.
Portuguese (Brazil)	cará roxo	2	Siqueira, M. V. B. M. et al. 2014. Distribution, management and diversity of yam local varieties in Brazil: a study on Dioscorea alata L. Brazil. J. Biol. 75:104-113. DOI: 10.1590/1519-6984.08313.
Portuguese (Brazil)	inhame	2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)	inhame branco	2	Siqueira, M. V. B. M. et al. 2014. Distribution, management and diversity of yam local varieties in Brazil: a study on Dioscorea alata L. Brazil. J. Biol. 75:104-113. DOI: 10.1590/1519-6984.08313.
Portuguese (Brazil)	inhame de São Tomé	2	Siqueira, M. V. B. M. et al. 2014. Distribution, management and diversity of yam local varieties in Brazil: a study on Dioscorea alata L. Brazil. J. Biol. 75:104-113. DOI: 10.1590/1519-6984.08313.
Portuguese (Brazil)	inhame roxo	2	Siqueira, M. V. B. M. et al. 2014. Distribution, management and diversity of yam local varieties in Brazil: a study on Dioscorea alata L. Brazil. J. Biol. 75:104-113. DOI: 10.1590/1519-6984.08313.
Spanish	ñame blanco	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	ñame de agua	2	Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
Spanish	tabena	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	storjams	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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