Ipomoea batatas

Taxonomy ID: 4120 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:4120)

current name

Ipomoea batatas  (L.) Lam., 1793

homotypic synonym:

Ipomoea tiliacea auct. non (Willd.) Choisy

basionym:

Convolvulus batatas  L., 1753

Genbank common name: sweet potato
NCBI BLAST name: eudicots
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Mitochondrial genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Other names:

heterotypic synonym

Ipomoea batatas var. edulis

common name(s)

batate

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Mesangiospermae; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; asterids; lamiids; Solanales; Convolvulaceae; Ipomoeeae; Ipomoea

Comments and References:

image:Ipomoea batatas Image by Llez from Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY-SA license. * Image may not have been verified for accuracy by NCBI Taxonomy.

GRIN (May 08, 2018) Name accessed on 8 May 2018 in: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.

Flora of China - Convolvulaceae Ruizheng Fang & George Staples. Convolvulaceae A. L. Jussieu. In Wu, Z. Y. & P. H. Raven, eds. 1995. Flora of China. Vol. 16 (Gentianaceae through Boraginaceae). Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. 479 pp. (online version)

Stefanovic S et al. 2003 Stefanovic S, Austin DF and Olmstead RG. 2003. Classification of Convolvulaceae: A phylogenetic approach. Systematic Botany 28(4): 791-806.

Stefanovic S et al. 2002 Stefanovic S, Krueger L and Olmstead RG. 2002. Monophyly of the Convolvulaceae and circumscription of their major lineages based on DNA sequences of multiple chloroplast loci. Amer. J Botany 89(9): 1510-1522.