- Family : DIOSCOREACEAE
(Yam Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BANA ALU FAMILY (बन आलु)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Dioscoreaceae
- Synonym(s) : Dioscorea pentaphylla var. communis Prain & Burkill; Dioscorea pentaphylla var. rheedei Prain & Burkill; Dioscorea pentaphylla var. linnaei Prain & Burkill
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Dioscorea pentaphylla L.
- Common name : Fiji yam, Kawan yam
- Vernacular name :
- Vallaikodi, Chedukannthi (Tamil)
- Pittalo kanda, Karwa, Karba, Koraba alu, Mundi kando (Oria)
- Kanta alu (Hindi)
- Duka-pendalam, Moyakku pendalam, Pendi-mukatiga, Adavi ginusu-tiga (Telugu)
- Chaval, Henthikkorana, Kattunurunnakizhangu, Kattukizhangu, Kornapidan, Nurunnakizhangu, Noorakizhangu, Nooran, Nuranchaavl, Marakkizhangu, Mulluvalykizhangu, Vellachikizhangu (Malayalam)
- Habit : Climber
- Habitat : Degraded deciduous forests and waste places, also in sacred groves
- Comments / notes : Often on foothills to 1300m, on thickets, less in plains and in scrub jungles. Tubers are edible
- Flower, Fruit : August-December
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh; Arun Singh, Raja K. Swamy, Sankara Rao
- Collection Date : 13-09-2014, 25-10-2014
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-196; HJCB-E-0228
- Collection Locality : Javadu Hills, Tiruvannamalai district (TN); Way to Bakarapete, Chittoor district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : All districts of Karnataka
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Amravati district, Aurangabad district, Bhandara district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Buldhana district, Chandrapur district, Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Odisha : Bargarh district, Bolangir district
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Lohit, Siang, Subansiri, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Ti
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore district
- Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga district
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere district
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
- Nayar, T. S., et al, 2006. Flowering plants of Kerala, A hand book
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 191
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Dioscorea pentaphylla. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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