Typification of 18 Old World taxa in Dioscorea (Dioscoreaceae)

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

“…Later, Prain and Burkill published their consolidated work on the genus in two successive volumes (Prain & Burkill, 1936, 1938, but did not, however, make their typifications more exact. Although a few papers have been published recently on the typification of names in Indian Dioscorea (Wilkin et al 2007;Hoque et al 2018b;Pagare et al 2020Pagare et al , 2021Kishor et al 2021), there are still some that have not yet been brought up to date. As there is no scope for publication of typifications within the format of the forthcoming Flora of India treatment, lectotypification of eight names in the genus is proposed here in accordance with the rules of ICN (Turland et al 2018).…”