Dioscorea cayenensis subsp. rotundata

Taxonomy ID: 55577 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:55577)

current name

Dioscorea cayenensis subsp. rotundata  (Poir.) J.Miège, 1968

basionym:

Dioscorea rotundata  Poir., 1813 in [Poiret JLM (1813)]

equivalent:

Dioscorea cayennensis subsp. rotundata , orth. var.  ¹⁾

Genbank common name: Guinea yam
NCBI BLAST name: monocots
Rank: subspecies
Genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Mitochondrial genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Other names:

common name(s)

white yam, white guinea yam, eboe yam

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Mesangiospermae; Liliopsida; Petrosaviidae; Dioscoreales; Dioscoreaceae; Dioscorea; Dioscorea cayenensis

Notes:

• 1) 'Orth. var.' (= orthographic variant) refers to a name not following standard rules of orthography, such as gender disagreement between genus and species, either when originally published or mistakenly corrected in later publications; includes names which are "incorrect original spellings" and "incorrect subsequent spellings" in zoological parlance.

Comments and References:

Poiret JLM (1813)

Ramser J et al. 1997 Ramser J, Weising K, Terauchi R, Kahl G, Lopez-Peralta C, Terhalle W. 1997. Molecular marker based taxonomy and phylogeny of Guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata - D. cayenensis). Genome 40(6): 903-15. 1997 Dec.

WCSP (Sept 09, 2020) World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://wcsp.science.kew.org . Retrieved 9 September 2020