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Accession Data:

Dioscorea bulbifera L.

  • Common Name: Air Potato
  • Family: Dioscoreaceae R. Br.

  • Country of Origin: tropical east Africa to Asia

  • USDA Zone: 9a-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198700196
  • Source: Fragrant Path (seed)
  • Provenance: ID corrected to Dioscorea bulbifera from Dioscorea batatas on 28 February 2008. Photographic confirmation by Ramona Walls, SUNY Stony Brook.
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1987
  • Bench: 3206 - DORMANT:South
    • Currently: dormant
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 01-31-2019

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Liliopsida
  • SubClass: monocots
  • Order: Dioscoreales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Dioscoreaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2019
2018

References (internal):

  • Medicinal Plants
  • Edible Plants
  • Plants with Extrafloral Nectaries
  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • Medicinal Plants - Traditional African Medicine
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Benin / Burkina / Ghana / Guinea-Bissau / Guinea / Ivory Coast / Liberia / Mali / Nigeria / Senegal / Sierra Leone / Togo / Burundi / Central African Republic / Cameroon / Congo / Gabon / Gulf of Guinea Is. / Rwanda / Zaire / Chad / Eritrea / Ethiopia / Sudan / Kenya / Tanzania / Uganda / Angola / Malawi / Mozambique / Zambia / Zimbabwe / Caprivi Strip / Madagascar / China South-Central / Hainan / China North-Central / China Southeast / Tibet / Japan / Korea / Nansei-shoto / Taiwan / Assam / Bangladesh / East Himalaya / India / Laccadive Is. / Nepal / Pakistan / Sri Lanka / West Himalaya / Andaman Is. / Cambodia / Laos / Myanmar / Thailand / Vietnam / Borneo / Jawa / Lesser Sunda Is. / Malaya / Philippines / Sulawesi / Sumatera / Christmas I. / New Guinea / Northern Territory / Queensland / Western Australia / Caroline Is. /

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, March 10, 2016.
  2. WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Thursday, March 10, 2016.

data regenerated on Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:00:17 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Dioscorea bulbifera

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Current Accessions in the Dioscoreaceae

  • Dioscorea bulbifera
  • Dioscorea dodecaneura
  • Dioscorea elephantipes
  • Dioscorea sylvatica
W/C = Wild Collected
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