Details for: PI 55567, Dioscorea cayenensis Lam.


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Dioscorea cayenensis Lam.
Origin:
Collected – Nigeria
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
23 Jun 1922
PI Assigned:
1922
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Dioscorea cayenensis Lam.
Origin:
Collected – Nigeria
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
23 Jun 1922
PI Assigned:
1922
Source History
Collected

Nigeria

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Accession Names and Identifiers
Narrative
Dioscorea cayenensis Lam.
Genus:
Dioscorea
Family:
Dioscoreaceae
Nomen number:

14189
Place of publication:

Encycl. 3:233. 1789
Verified:
05/12/1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Dioscorea cayenensis Lam. subsp. cayenensis
Dioscorea cayenensis Lam. var. cayenensis

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Dioscorea occidentalis R. Knuth

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishattoto yam  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
EnglishLagos yam  1Burkill, H. M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. 1:660.
Englishtwelve-months yam  1Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agricultural Handbook no. 505
Englishyellow Guinea yam  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishyellow yam  1Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Germangelbe Yamswurzel  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
Portuguese (Brazil)cará-do-Pará  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
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