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Taxon:  Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. var. batatas



Summary
Genus:
Ipomoea
Subgenus:
Eriospermum
Section:
Eriospermum
Series:
Batatas
Family:
Convolvulaceae
Tribe:
Ipomoeeae
Nomen number:
316363
Verified:
12/17/1991 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. (0 active accession[s])
Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. var. apiculata (M. Martens & Galeotti) J. A. McDonald & D. F. Austin (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Convolvulus batatas L.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Convolvulus fastigiatus Roxb.
Ipomoea fastigiata (Roxb.) Sweet
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Reference(s)
  1. Burkart, A. E., ed. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios. 1969-
  2. Correa, J. E. & H. Y. Bernal. 1991. Especies vegetales promisorias de los paises del Convenio Andres Bello. 1989-1998 6:140-176. Note: = Ipomoea batatas
  3. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002 Note: = Ipomoea batatas
  4. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  5. Kellerman, T. S. et al. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. 1988 Note: poisonous
  6. Kingsbury, J. M. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. 1964 Note: poisonous
  7. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  8. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  9. McDonald, J. A. & D. H. Austin. 1990. Changes and additions in Ipomoea section Batatas (Convolvulaceae). Brittonia 42:116-120.
  10. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: = Ipomoea batatas
  11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  12. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  13. Roullier, C. et al. 2011. Combining chloroplast and nuclear microsatellites to investigate origin and dispersal of New World sweet potato landraces. Molec. Ecol. 20:3963-3977. Note: this study found evidence based on plastid SSR for two independent areas of domestication with two different sets of genotypes
  14. Srisuwan, S. et al. 2006. The origin and evolution of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) and its wild relatives through the cytogenetic approaches. Pl. Sci. (Elsevier) 171:424-433.
  15. Staples, G. W. 1996. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
Common names
English
kuumara –
sweet-potato –
Aymara (Peru)
kkumara –
tuktuka –
Dutch
zoete aardappel –
English (United States)
yam –
French
patate douce –
German
Batate –
Süßkartoffel –
Portuguese
batata-doce –
Portuguese (Brazil)
batata-da-terra –
Quichua (Peru)
apichu –
Spanish
batata –
boniato –
camote –
Spanish (Venezuela)
papa dulce –
Swedish
batat –
Transcribed Korean
goguma –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    cult. worldwide
4Naturalized    widely natzd. in tropics
6Other    origin neotropics
Cultivated (cult. worldwide)
Naturalized (widely natzd. in tropics)
Other (origin neotropics)
Economic Uses
Human food
Materials
alcohol (fide G. W. Staples, pers. comm. 1996) –
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2, as I. batatas; Herbs Commerce ed2, as I. batatas) –
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kingsbury; Kellerman et al.) –


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