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Dioscorea amazonum Mart. ex Griseb. is an accepted name

This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae).

The record derives from WCSP (data supplied on 2012-03-23 ) which reports it as an accepted name (record 239767) with original publication details: Fl. Bras. 3(1): 39 1842.

Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: http://ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:324013-2.

Synonyms:

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied
Dioscorea amazonum var. amazonum	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea amazonum var. burchellii Uline ex R.Knuth	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea amazonum var. consanguinea (Kunth) Uline ex R.Knuth	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea amazonum var. robustior Uline ex R.Knuth	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea amazonum var. sagotiana Uline ex R.Knuth	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea amazonum var. sprucei Uline ex R.Knuth	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea elegantula Kunth	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea georgensis R.Knuth	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea hitchcockii R.Knuth	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea holtii R.Knuth	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea huberi R.Knuth	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea megalobotrya Kunth & R.H.Schomb.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea surinamensis Miq. ex Knuth [Invalid]	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Helmia consanguinea Kunth	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23

Infraspecific taxa:

This species contains the following infraspecific taxa*.

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Synonyms
Dioscorea amazonum var. klugii (R.Knuth) Ayala	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1

The Plant List does not attempt to include all infraspecific taxa.

Earlier versions

This name was in version 1 of The Plant List, record kew-239767.

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• names related to this name have changed