Details for: PI 196783, Dioscorea elephantipes (LʼHér.) Engl., No. A-159


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Dioscorea elephantipes (LʼHér.) Engl.
Top Name:
No. A-159
Origin:
Collected – Cape Province, South Africa
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
28 May 1951
PI Assigned:
1951
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Dioscorea elephantipes (LʼHér.) Engl.
Top Name:
No. A-159
Origin:
Collected – Cape Province, South Africa
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
28 May 1951
PI Assigned:
1951
Source History
Collected
May 1951.
Cape Province, South Africa

Collector(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
No. A-159
Type: Collector identifier
11.2km east of Clanwilliam, at Pakhuis Pass

Narrative
Dioscorea elephantipes (LʼHér.) Engl.
Genus:
Dioscorea
Family:
Dioscoreaceae
Nomen number:

14203
Place of publication:

H. G. A. Engler & C. G. O. Drude, Veg. Erde 9(II):367. 1908 (Pflanzenw. Afrikas)
Verified:
02/24/2006 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
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Basionym
Tamus elephantipes LʼHér.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Testudinaria elephantipes (LʼHér.) A. Dicks.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishelephant's-foot  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
EnglishHottentot-bread  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Afrikaanshottentotsbrood  2Goldblatt, P. & J. Manning. 2000. Cape plants: a conspectus of the Cape flora of South Africa. Strelitzia vol. 9. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
GermanElefantenfuß  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
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