Dioscorea villosa L.
Distribution
Native to:
Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin
Introduced into:
Cuba, Leeward Is.
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Merione villosa (L.) Salisb. in Gen. Pl.: 12 (1866)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Dioscorea cliffortiana Lam. in Encycl. 3: 232 (1789)
- Dioscorea glauca Muhl. ex L.C.Beck in Bot. North. Middle States: 355 (1833), pro syn.
- Dioscorea hexaphylla Raf. in New Fl. 2: 89 (1837)
- Dioscorea hirticaulis Bartlett in Bull. Bur. Pl. Industr. U.S.D.A. 189: 17 (1910)
- Dioscorea lloydiana E.H.L.Krause in Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 32(2): 331 (1914)
- Dioscorea longifolia Raf. in New Fl. 2: 89 (1837)
- Dioscorea megaptera Raf. in New Fl. 2: 88 (1837)
- Dioscorea paniculata Michx. in Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 239 (1803)
- Dioscorea paniculata var. glabrifolia Bartlett in Bull. Bur. Pl. Industr. U.S.D.A. 189: 15 (1910)
- Dioscorea pruinosa Kunth in Enum. Pl. 5: 338 (1850)
- Dioscorea quaternata Walter in Fl. Carol.: 246 (1788)
- Dioscorea quaternata var. glauca (Muhl. ex L.C.Beck) Fernald in Rhodora 39: 399 (1937)
- Dioscorea quinata Walter in Fl. Carol.: 246 (1788)
- Dioscorea repanda Raf. in New Fl. 2: 89 (1837), nom. illeg.
- Dioscorea sativa L. in Sp. Pl.: 1033 (1753), nom. cons.
- Dioscorea villosa var. glabra J.Lloyd ex A.Gray in Manual, ed. 7: 297 (1908)
- Dioscorea villosa var. glabrifolia (Bartlett) S.F.Blake in Rhodora 20: 49 (1918)
- Dioscorea villosa subsp. glabrifolia (Bartlett) W.Stone in Pl. S. New Jersey: 358 (1912)
- Dioscorea villosa f. glabrifolia (Bartlett) Fernald in Rhodora 39: 401 (1937)
- Dioscorea villosa subsp. glauca (Muhl. ex L.C.Beck) R.Knuth in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 43: 173 (1924)
- Dioscorea villosa var. hirticaulis (Bartlett) H.E.Ahles in J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 80: 172 (1964)
- Dioscorea villosa subsp. hirticaulis (Bartlett) R.Knuth in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 43: 173 (1924)
- Dioscorea villosa var. laeviuscula Alph.Wood in Class-book Bot., ed. 2: 544 (1847)
- Dioscorea villosa subsp. paniculata (Michx.) R.Knuth in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 43: 173 (1924)
- Dioscorea villosa subsp. quaternata (Walter) R.Knuth in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 43: 173 (1924)
- Dioscorea waltheri Desf. in Tabl. École Bot., ed. 2: 269 (1815)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141.
- Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Knapp, W.M. & Naczi, R.F.C. (2021). Vascular plants of Maryland, USA. A comprehensive account of the state's botanical diversity. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 113: 1-151.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
- Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
- FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
- GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
- GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt. (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
- Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
- RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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s.coll [s.n.] | K001148775 | Yes | |||
Gramt. L.H. [s.n.], USA | K001148777 | Yes | |||
s.coll [s.n.], USA | K001148782 | Yes | |||
James, J. [2862], USA | K001148779 | Yes | |||
Chase, V.H. [15310], USA | K001148774 | Yes | |||
James, J.F. [2862], USA | K001148778 | Yes | |||
s.coll [s.n.], USA | K001148776 | Yes | |||
s.coll [7233], USA | K001148781 | Yes | |||
s.coll [s.n.] | K001148773 | Yes | |||
s.coll [s.n.] | K001148783 | Yes | |||
French, G.H. [2862], USA | K001148780 | Yes | |||
Montero, O.G. [254], Chile | Dioscorea longifolia | K001150665 | Yes | ||
Soper, J.H. [2294], USA | Dioscorea villosa f. glabrifolia | K001148818 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5108] | Dioscorea sativa | K001104819 | Yes | ||
Porter, G. [Cat. no. 5108], Malaysia | Dioscorea sativa | K001104821 | Yes | ||
Gomez, W. [Cat. no. 5108], Myanmar | Dioscorea sativa | K001104824 | Yes | ||
De Silva, F. [Cat. no. 5108] | Dioscorea sativa | K001104820 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5108], Bangladesh | Dioscorea sativa | K001104823 | Yes | ||
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 5108], Myanmar | Dioscorea sativa | K001104825 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5108], India | Dioscorea sativa | K001104822 | Unknown type material | Yes | |
Biswas, K. [4214], India | Dioscorea sativa | K001143018 | Yes | ||
Hohenacker, R.F. [2162 bb], India | Dioscorea sativa | K001143019 | Yes |
Sources
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images
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Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0