Species notes
About Dioscorea alata
Dioscorea alata (also recorded as Yams) is an accepted species in the family Dioscoreaceae, within the order Dioscoreales. Checklist records aggregated by GBIF list it from Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, and Jawa. The photographs can be compared for visible features such as growth habit, leaf arrangement, stems, flowers and fruit.
- Common name
- Yams
- Family
- Dioscoreaceae
- Order
- Dioscoreales
- Identification rank
- Species
- Recorded distribution
- Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa
Taxonomy source: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
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