Dioscoreaceae
Dioscorea

Dioscorea trifida L.f.

First published in Suppl. Pl.: 427 (1782)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical America. It is a climbing tuberous geophyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as animal food and a medicine and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.
  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141.
  • Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Bernal, R., Galeano, G., Rodríguez, A., Sarmiento, H. & Gutiérrez, M. (2017). Nombres comunes de las plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Castro, C. (Proveedor de metadatos), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). Versión 11.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Kew Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) https://www.kew.org/science/data-and-resources/tools-and-services/medicinal-plant-names-services in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.
  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt. (2013). Servicios ecosistémicos de especies de fauna y flora presentes en la Orinoquía colombiana. 128 registros, aportados por: Salgado, B. (Contacto del recurso), Gutiérrez, J. (Creador del recurso), Bernal, M. (Proveedor de metadatos). Versión 8.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=orinoquia_faunaflora_is_2014
  • Jansen, P., Lemmens, R., Oyen, L., Siemonsma, J., Stavast, F. & Van Valkenburg, J. (1991) Plant Resources of South-East Asia. Basic list of species and commodity grouping. Final version. Pudoc, Wageningen.
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/
  • Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2017 s.coll [1012] Brazil K001150183 Yes
Williams, R.O. [s.n.] Grenada K001149146 Yes
Granville, J.J., de; Crozier, F.R.M.; Sarthou, C. [15195] French Guiana K001149763 Yes
s.coll [127] K001149148 Yes
Gooding, H.J. [23/57a] K001150848 Yes
Forzza, R.C.; Labiak, P.H.; Amorim, A.M.A; Pessoa, C. [8627] Brazil K001590749 Yes
Hostmann [555] Suriname K001149759 Isotype Yes
Rafael, A.; Ocampo, S. [3544] K001148919 Yes
Granville, J.J., de; Crozier, F.R.M.; Sarthou, C. [14990] French Guiana K001149765 Yes
Burchell [3624] Brazil K001149775 Yes
Plowman, T.C.; Schultes, R.E.; Tovar, O. [6901] Peru K001150424 Yes
Skutch, A.F. [2877] Costa Rica K001148920 Yes
s.coll [2045] Bolivia K001150427 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [s.n.] United Kingdom K001149769 Yes
Matthew [1646] K001149800 Yes
Burchell [2654] K001149777 Yes
Silva, A.S.L. [253] Brazil K001149802 Yes
Burkill, I.H. [s.n.] United Kingdom K001149772 Yes
Broadway, W.E. [3374] Trinidad and Tobago K001149137 Yes
Sucre, D.; da Silva, J.F. [9375] Brazil K001590748 Yes
Patmore, P.N.; Dufour, D.L. [193] Colombia K001150421 Yes
Mac Fadyen [s.n.] Jamaica K001149145 Yes
Burchell [6605] Brazil K001149798 Yes
Broadway, W.E. [3374] Trinidad and Tobago K001149143 Yes
Woytkowski, F. [7882] Peru K001150426 Yes
s.coll [s.n.] K001149760 Yes
s.coll [s.n.] Jamaica K001149144 Yes
Klug, G. [2995] Peru K001150425 Yes
Burchell [6591-2] Brazil K001149799 Yes
Delnatte, C. [1742] K001149762 Yes
Granville, J.J., de; Crozier, F.R.M.; Sarthou, C. [14990] French Guiana K001149764 Yes
s.coll [s.n.] Guyana K001149768 Yes
Samuels, J.A. [147] Suriname K001149757 Yes
Williams, R.O. [12105] Trinidad and Tobago K001149140 Yes
Milliken, W. [1849] Brazil K:SPC-62742.000 No
Plowman, T.C.; Davidse, G.; Rosa, N.A.; Rosário, C.S.; et al [8190] Brazil K001149797 Yes
Schunke Vigo, J. [3915] Peru K001150422 Yes
Burchell [9198] Brazil K001149778 Yes
Schomburgk [s.n.] K001149801 Yes
Smith, H.H. [120] Saint Vincent and the Grenadines K001149147 Yes
Ule, E.H.G. [9182] Brazil K001149773 Yes
Schomburgk [s.n.] Guyana K001149767 Yes
Williams, R.O. [12105] Trinidad and Tobago K001149141 Yes
Miquel [s.n.] Suriname K001149758 Yes
Ule, E.H.G. [9176] Brazil K001149774 Yes
Williams, R.O. [12105] Trinidad and Tobago K001149138 Yes
Lima, A. [53-1653] Brazil K001149796 Yes
Williams, R.O. [12105] Trinidad and Tobago K001149139 Yes
Sagot, P.A. [[581]] French Guiana K001149761 Yes
Balée, W. [2629] Brazil K001149794 Yes
Burchell [10031-2] Brazil K001149776 Yes
s.coll [442] Peru K001150423 Yes
Williams, R.O. [12105] Trinidad and Tobago K001149142 Yes
Philcox, D.; Freeman, B. [4668] Brazil K001149803 Yes
Ratter, J.A. [1083] Brazil K001149804 Yes
Granville, J.J., de; Crozier, F.R.M. [16363] French Guiana K001149766 Yes
Balée, W. [2629] Brazil K001149795 Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible

    • ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
    • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/