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Dioscorea cayenensis

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Species of yam

Dioscorea cayenensis
Yellow yam
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Dioscoreales
Family: Dioscoreaceae
Genus: Dioscorea
Species: D. cayenensis
Binomial name
Dioscorea cayenensis
Lam.
Synonyms
  • Dioscorea cayenennsis (unjustified correction)

Dioscorea cayenensis is a species of yam in the genus Dioscorea that is a widely consumed West African domesticated crop. Dioscorea rotundata is sometimes treated as a subspecies, and sometimes also as a separate species. Common names include Guinea yam, yellow yam, and yellow Guinea yam.

It may be a triploid hybrid between the cultivated D. rotundata and the wild D. burkilliana.

References

  1. Blench, Roger (2006). Archaeology, language, and the African past. Altamira Press. ISBN 9780759104655.
  2. Sugihara, Yu; Kudoh, Aoi; Oli, Muluneh Tamiru; Takagi, Hiroki; Natsume, Satoshi; Shimizu, Motoki; Abe, Akira; Asiedu, Robert; Asfaw, Asrat; Adebola, Patrick; Terauchi, Ryohei (2021). "Population Genomics of Yams: Evolution and Domestication of Dioscorea Species". Population Genomics. doi:10.1007/13836_2021_94.
Taxon identifiers
Dioscorea cayenensis


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