Details for: PI 115664, Amorphophallus konjac K. Koch

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Amorphophallus konjac K. Koch

Origin:

Collected – Japan

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

21 May 1936

PI Assigned:

1936

Inventory Volume:

127
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Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Amorphophallus konjac K. Koch

Origin:

Collected – Japan

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

21 May 1936

PI Assigned:

1936

Source History

Collected

Japan

Collector(s):

Yokohama Nursery Company Limited

Accession Names and Identifiers

Narrative

Amorphophallus konjac K. Koch

Genus:

Amorphophallus

Family:

Araceae

Subfamily:

Aroideae

Tribe:

Thomsonieae

Nomen number:

2948

Place of publication:

K. Koch & G. A. Fintelmann, Wochenschr. Gärtnerei Pflanzenk. 1:262. 1858

Verified:

10/15/2003 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Autonym(s)
Amorphophallus konjac K. Koch var. konjac

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Amorphophallus rivieri Durieu ex Carrière var. konjac (K. Koch) Engl.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Amorphophallus rivieri Durieu ex Carrière
Amorphophallus rivieri Durieu ex Carrière var. rivieri

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
English	devil's-tongue			1	Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada Note: = Amorphophallus rivieri 'Konjac'
English	elephant-yam			1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English	konjac			1	Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs
English	leopard-palm			1	Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada Note: = Amorphophallus rivieri 'Konjac'
English	snake-palm		as Amorphophallus rivieri	1	Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening Note: = A rivieri 'Konjac'
English	umbrella arum			1	Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agricultural Handbook no. 505
Chinese	hua mo yu	花蘑芋		2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Chinese	mo yu	蘑芋		2	Cui, X. et al. 1995. Ethnobotany of Chinese drug Mo Yu (Amorphophallus konjac). J. Pl. Resources Environm. 4:38-40.
German	stinkende Titanenwurz			2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1199.
Japanese Rōmaji	konnyaku			2	Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
Swedish	konjak-knölkalla			2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

Annotations

The Taxonomic Name Of The Accession When It Was Received: 09 Oct 2009, from Amorphophallus rivieri Durieu ex Carrière to Amorphophallus konjac K. Koch