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Dioscorea polystachya Turcz.

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 7: 158 (1837)

Classification

kingdom
Plantae
phylum
Tracheophyta
class
Liliopsida
order
Dioscoreales
family
Dioscoreaceae
genus
Dioscorea
species
Dioscorea polystachya

Name

Synonyms
Dioscorea batatas Decne.
Dioscorea batatas f. clavata Makino
Dioscorea batatas f. daikok Makino
Dioscorea batatas f. flabellata Makino
Dioscorea batatas f. rakuda Makino
Dioscorea batatas f. tsukune Makino
Dioscorea batatas subsp. clavata Makino
Dioscorea batatas subsp. daikok Makino
Dioscorea batatas subsp. flabellata Makino
Dioscorea batatas subsp. rakuda Makino
Dioscorea batatas subsp. tsukune Makino
Dioscorea cayenensis var. pseudobatatas Hauman
Dioscorea cayennensis subsp. pseudobatatas Hauman
Dioscorea decaisneana Carrière
Dioscorea doryphora Hance
Dioscorea polystachya f. elongata Nakai
Dioscorea polystachya f. tsukune Nakai
Dioscorea potaninii Prain & Burkill
Dioscorea pseudobatatas (Hauman) Herter
Dioscorea rosthornii Diels
Homonyms
Dioscorea polystachya Turcz.
Common names
Chinese Yam in English
Chinese yam in English
Chinese yam in English
Chinese yam in language.
Chinese yam in English
Chinese yam in English
Chinese yam in English
Chinese-potato in English
Chinese-potato in English
Chinese-potato in English
Cinnamon-vine in English
Dioscorea polystachya in Esperanto
Yam in English
batata-chinesa in Portuguese
cará in Portuguese
cará-amarelo in Portuguese
cará-do-pará in Portuguese
chinese-yam in English
chinesische Yamswurzel in German
chinesische Yamswurzel in German
cinnamon-vine in English
cinnamon-vine in English
dioskorea mnohoklasá in Slovak
erva-cará in Portuguese
igname in French
igname in French
igname de Chine in French
inhame in Portuguese
inhame-comum in Portuguese
inhame-da-china in Portuguese
jams in Swedish
jams in Swedish
kiinanjamssi in Finnish
naga-imo in Japanese
naga-imo in language.
naga-imo in language.
pochrzyn chiński in Polish
shan yao in Chinese
shan yao in language.
shan yao in language.
shu yu in Chinese
shu yu in language.
smldinec čínský in Czech
utanbauna in language.
yam in English
Диоскорея многокистевая in Russian
กลอยจีน in Thai
ฮ่วยซัว in Thai
ナガイモ in Japanese
家山藥 in Chinese
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