Plant Details

Accepted name:: Dioscorea esculenta (Lour.) Burkill [Dioscoreaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
kangi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karen potato	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
kemarung	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kembili	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kemili	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kukulala	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
lesser yam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
lingura	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
madhvaaluka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
madhvaluka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mu-kelengu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mucilam valli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mukkizhangu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mullu genasu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mullu-kilangu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
musilam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
potato-yam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
see genasu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sila kadom	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
siruvalli kilangu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
suthani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
suthini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ubi keladi	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
ubi torak	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
valli kilangu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
yam	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
කුකුළල	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
甘薯	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Tuber		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
tuber		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 15 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Dioscorea fasciculata Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 3: 801 (1832).
Dioscorea tiliifolia Kunth Enum. Pl. 5: 401 (1850).
Oncus esculentus Lour. Fl. Cochinch.: 194 (1790).
Dioscorea aculeata Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 3: 800 (1832), nom. illeg.
Dioscorea aculeata var. spinosa (Prain) Roxb. ex Prain & Burkill J. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 10: 20 (1914).
Dioscorea esculenta var. fasciculata (Roxb.) Prain & Burkill J. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 10: 19 (1914).
Dioscorea esculenta var. fulvidotomentosa R.Knuth in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 43: 190 (1924).
Dioscorea esculenta var. spinosa (Prain) R.Knuth in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 43: 189 (1924).
Dioscorea esculenta var. tiliifolia (Kunth) Fosberg & Sachet Micronesica 20: 135 (1978).
Dioscorea fasciculata var. spinosa Prain Bengal Pl. 2: 1066 (1903).
Dioscorea papillaris Blanco Fl. Filip.: 801 (1837).
Dioscorea papuana Warb. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 13: 273 (1891).
Dioscorea spinosa Roxb. ex Hook.f. Fl. Brit. India 6: 291 (1892), nom. illeg.
Dioscorea tugui Blanco Fl. Filip.: 800 (1837).
Oncorhiza esculentus (Lour.) Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 374 (1805).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Dioscorea esculanta (Lour.) Burkill	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Dioscorea esculenta	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Dioscorea esculenta (Lour.) Burk.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Dioscorea esculenta (Lour.) Burkill	Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Dioscorea esculenta Burkill.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Dioscorea fasciculata	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Dioscorea tiliaefolia	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Oncus esculentus Lour.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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