Notes on four new synonyms of the genus Dioscorea Plum. ex L.

Hoque, Akramul; Lakshminarasimhan, P.; Maity, Debabrata

doi:10.26679/pleione.13.1.2019.146-157

Pleione

2019

DOI: 10.26679/pleione.13.1.2019.146-157

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Notes on four new synonyms of the genus Dioscorea Plum. ex L.

Akramul Hoque¹,

P. Lakshminarasimhan²,

Debabrata Maity³

Abstract: Pleione 13(1): 146 -157. 2019.

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“…A few species have since been added as new to science or to the Indian flora (Hoque et al 2017(Hoque et al , 2018aPradheep et al 2019). In addition, the names of several taxa of Dioscorea are now considered as synonyms, both at species and infraspecific level (Hoque et al 2019;Hoque 2020). The submitted treatment for the Flora of India confirms the occurrence of 33 species and only four varieties of Dioscorea.…”

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The yam genus Dioscorea Plum. ex L. (Dioscoreaceae) includes some of the world's most important food and medicinal plants. The tubers and rhizomes of this tropical esculent are widely used as a staple food by various ethnic communities throughout the world including India (Kumar et al. 2017;Sheikh et al. 2017), and many species are a source of the plant steroid diosgenin (Anonymous 1952;Asha & Nair 2005). With about 630 species, Dioscorea is widely distributed in both tropical and subtropical regions of the world (Mabberley 2017).The diversity of the genus in India is considerable and many species and infraspecific taxa were described by Roxburgh (1832), Hooker (1892), Prain and

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Notes on four new synonyms of the genus Dioscorea Plum. ex L.

Abstract: Pleione 13(1): 146 -157. 2019.

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Typification of nine names of Asian species and varieties of Dioscorea (Dioscoreaceae)

Typification of nine names of Asian species and varieties of Dioscorea (Dioscoreaceae)

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