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Dioscorea elephantipes (L'Hér.) Engl. 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 240107) with original publication details: Veg. Erde 9(3; 2): 367 1908.

Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: http://ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:317936-1.

Synonyms:

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied
Dioscorea elephantopus Spreng. [Illegitimate]	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea montana (Burch.) Spreng.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Dioscorea testudinaria R.Knuth [Illegitimate]	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Rhizemys elephantipes (L'Hér.) Raf.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Rhizemys montana (Burch.) Raf.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Tamus elephantipes L'Hér.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Testudinaria elephantipes (L'Hér.) Burch.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Testudinaria elephantipes (L'Hér.) Dickson	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Testudinaria elephantipes f. montana (Burch.) G.D.Rowley	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Testudinaria montana Burch.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23

Earlier versions

This name was in version 1 of The Plant List, record kew-240107, and has not been changed.