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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 (data supplied on 2012-03-23 ) 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: http://ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30332005-2.

Synonyms:

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied
Dioscorea aculeata Roxb. [Illegitimate]	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea aculeata var. spinosa (Prain) Roxb. ex Prain & Burkill	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea esculenta var. esculenta	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Dioscorea esculenta var. fasciculata (Roxb.) Prain & Burkill	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea esculenta var. fasciculata (Roxb.) R. Knuth	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Dioscorea esculenta var. fulvidotomentosa R.Knuth	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea esculenta var. spinosa (Prain) R.Knuth	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea esculenta var. tiliifolia (Kunth) Fosberg & Sachet	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea fasciculata Roxb.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea fasciculata var. spinosa Prain	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea papillaris Blanco	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea papuana Warb.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea spinosa Roxb. ex Hook.f. [Illegitimate]	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea tiliifolia Kunth	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea tugui Blanco	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Oncorhiza esculentus (Lour.) Pers.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Oncus esculentus Lour.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23

Earlier versions

This name was in version 1 of The Plant List, record kew-240117.

• this name record has not changed
• names related to this name have changed