⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

This name is in version 1.1 of The Plant List, record kew-240117, with some changes.

Dioscorea esculenta (Lour.) Burkill is an accepted name

This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae).

The record derives from WCSP which reports it as an accepted name (record 240117) with original publication details: Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 1: 396 1917.

Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30332005-2.

Synonyms:

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Dioscorea aculeata Roxb. [Illegitimate]	Synonym		WCSP
Dioscorea aculeata var. spinosa (Prain) Roxb. ex Prain & Burkill	Synonym		WCSP
Dioscorea esculenta var. fasciculata (Roxb.) Prain & Burkill	Synonym		WCSP
Dioscorea esculenta var. fulvidotomentosa R.Knuth	Synonym		WCSP
Dioscorea esculenta var. spinosa (Prain) R.Knuth	Synonym		WCSP
Dioscorea esculenta var. tiliifolia (Kunth) Fosberg & Sachet	Synonym		WCSP
Dioscorea fasciculata Roxb.	Synonym		WCSP
Dioscorea fasciculata var. spinosa Prain	Synonym		WCSP
Dioscorea papillaris Blanco	Synonym		WCSP
Dioscorea papuana Warb.	Synonym		WCSP
Dioscorea spinosa Roxb. ex Hook.f. [Illegitimate]	Synonym		WCSP
Dioscorea spinosa Roxb. ex Wall.	Synonym		TRO
Dioscorea tiliifolia Kunth	Synonym		WCSP
Dioscorea tugui Blanco	Synonym		WCSP
Oncorhiza esculentus (Lour.) Pers.	Synonym		WCSP
Oncus esculentus Lour.	Synonym		WCSP