Plant Details

Accepted name:: Dioscorea tokoro Makino ex Miyabe [Dioscoreaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
oni-dokoro	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
tokoro rhizoma	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
rhizome		Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 6 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Dioscorea buergeri Uline ex R.Knuth J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 73(Suppl.): 11 (1904).
Dioscorea buergeri var. enneaneura Uline ex Diels Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 260 (1900).
Dioscorea enneaneura (Uline ex Diels) Prain & Burkill J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 73(Suppl.): 11 (1904).
Dioscorea saidae R.Knuth in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 43: 317 (1924).
Dioscorea wichurae Uline ex R.Knuth in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 43: 316 (1924).
Dioscorea yokusae Prain & Burkill J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 73(Suppl.): 10 (1904).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Dioscorea tokora Makino	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
Dioscorea tokoro	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Dioscorea tokoro Makino	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Dioscorea tokoro Makino ex Miyabe	WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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