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Dioscorea pentaphylla Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK

Description

Dioscorea pentaphylla Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1032. 1753.

"Habitat in India." RCN: 7453.

Lectotype (Jayasuriya in Dassanayake & al., Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 9: 55. 1995): [icon] " Nuren-kelengu " in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 7: 67, t. 35. 1688.

Current name: Dioscorea pentaphylla L. (Dioscoreaceae).

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D), pp. 474-489 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 481, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Dioscoreales
Family
Dioscoreaceae
Genus
Dioscorea
Species
pentaphylla
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dioscorea pentaphylla Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007