Details for: PI 37516, Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott
Origin:
Collected – Florida, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
03 Mar 1914
PI Assigned:
1914
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott
Origin:
Collected – Florida, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
03 Mar 1914
PI Assigned:
1914
Source History
Collected

Florida, United States
Comment: When cooked, flesh is mealy, nutty, grayish white
Collector(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Narrative
Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott
Genus:
Colocasia
Family:
Araceae
Subfamily:
Aroideae
Tribe:
Colocasieae
Nomen number:

11177
Place of publication:

H. Schott & S. L. Endlicher, Melet. bot. 18. 1832
Verified:
11/01/1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Arum esculentum L.

Autonym(s)
Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott var. esculenta

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Caladium esculentum (L.) Vent.
Colocasia antiquorum Schott var. esculenta (L.) Schott

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishcocoyam  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishdasheen  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englisheddo  11961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
Englishelephant's-ear  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Englishtaro  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Frenchcolocasie  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanTaro  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1318.
GermanZehrwurzel  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1318.
Indiaarum  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Malaydaun keladi  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)inhame  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)inhame-branco  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)inhame-da-África  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)inhame-da-costa  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)taioba-de-São-Tomé  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
South Africa (Zulu)madumbe  2Joubert, F. J. 1997. Taro (Colocasia esculenta), an under exploited tuber crop in South Africa. J. S. African Soc. Hort. Sci. 7(2):39-43.
Spanishalcocaz  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishcolocasia  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishmalanga  2Howard, R. A. 1979. Monocotyledoneae. In: Howard, R., Flora of the lesser Antilles. 3:382, 384-385. Note: published on 31 July 1979, citation of lectotype attributed here, page 382
Spanishtayoba  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish (Peru)pituca  2Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. Colegio Salesiano, Lima, Peru.
Swedishtaro  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Koreantoran  2Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:92.
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