Dioscorea cayenensis
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Dioscoreales |
| Family: | Dioscoreaceae |
| Genus: | Dioscorea |
| Species: | D. cayenensis |
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| Dioscorea cayenensis | |
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Dioscorea cayenensis is a species of yam in the genus Dioscorea that is a widely consumed West African domesticated crop. Dioscorea rotundata is sometimes treated as a subspecies, and sometimes also as a separate species.[1] Common names include Guinea yam, yellow yam, and yellow Guinea yam.
It may be a triploid hybrid between the cultivated D. rotundata and the wild D. burkilliana.[2]
References
- ^ Blench, Roger (2006). Archaeology, language, and the African past. Altamira Press. ISBN 9780759104655.
- ^ Sugihara, Yu; Kudoh, Aoi; Oli, Muluneh Tamiru; Takagi, Hiroki; Natsume, Satoshi; Shimizu, Motoki; Abe, Akira; Asiedu, Robert; Asfaw, Asrat; Adebola, Patrick; Terauchi, Ryohei (2021). "Population Genomics of Yams: Evolution and Domestication of Dioscorea Species". Population Genomics. doi:10.1007/13836_2021_94.