Dioscorea aculeata Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1033. 1753.

"Habitat in Malabaria." RCN: 7455.

Type not designated.

Original material: [icon] in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 7: 71, t. 37. 1688; [icon] in Francisci, Ost- West-Ind. Gart.: 717, t. 25, f. 8. 1668.

Current name: Dioscorea aculeata L. ( Dioscoreaceae).

Note: See discussion by Nicolson & al. (Interpret. Van Rheede’s Hort. Malab.: 290. 1988) who do not, however, formally typify the name.