- Family : DIOSCOREACEAE
(Yam Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BANA ALU FAMILY (बन आलु)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Dioscoreaceae
- Synonym(s) : Polynome alata (L.) Salisb.; Dioscorea alata var. globosa (Roxb.) Prain; Dioscorea alata var. purpurea (Roxb.) H.F.Macmill.; Dioscorea alata var. tarri Prain & Burkill; Dioscorea alata var. vera Prain & Burkill; Dioscorea atropurpurea Roxb.; Dioscorea colocasiifolia Pax; Dioscorea eburina Lour.; Dioscorea eburnea Lour.; Dioscorea globosa Roxb.; Dioscorea javanica Queva; Dioscorea purpurea Roxb.; Dioscorea rubella Roxb.; Dioscorea sapinii De Wild.; Dioscorea vulgaris Miq.; Elephantodon eburnea (Lour.) Salisb.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Dioscorea alata L.
- Common name : Greater yam, Asiatic yam, Yam, Water yam, White yam
- Vernacular name :
- Chupri alu, Khamalu, Gurania-alu, Kamalu (Hindi)
- Tunagenaasu, Mundi genasu (Kannada)
- Alukam (Sanskrit)
- Coradu (Marathi)
- Kambo alu, Kham alu (Oria)
- Kaachil, Kaavuth (Malayalam)
- Habit : Climber
- Habitat : Tropical dry deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Often cultivated for its edible tubers, also naturalized
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Bhandara district, Pune district, Raigad district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Odisha : Cultivated
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Siang, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, Christmas Island, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, Christmas Island, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 187
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Dioscorea alata. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Field Image(s)
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Habitat
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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