Dioscorea villosa L., 1753

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

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scientific name	Dioscorea villosa L.
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Dioscorea sativa Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 2: 1033. 1753, typ. cons.

"Habitat in Indiis." RCN: 7458.

Conserved type (McNeill & al. in Taxon 36: 369. 1987): [icon] " Dioscorea foliis cordatis, caule laevi " in Linnaeus, Hort. Cliff.: 459, t. 28 [stem and leaves]. 1738.

Generitype of Dioscorea Linnaeus , nom. cons.

Current name: Dioscorea villosa L. View in CoL ( Dioscoreaceae ).

Note: Dioscorea sativa , with the type designated by McNeill & al., was proposed as conserved type of the genus by Jarvis (in Taxon 41: 562. 1992). This was eventually approved by the General Committee (see review of the history of this proposal by Barrie, l.c. 55: 795-796. 2006).