Dioscorea polystachya

TaxID: 55575

Basic Information

Dioscorea polystachya

Chinese Yam, Chinese yam

Dioscorea polystachya or Chinese yam (sh ny o, simplified Chinese: ??; traditional Chinese: ??), also called cinnamon-vine, is a species of flowering plant in the yam family. It is sometimes called Chinese potato or by its Korean name ma. It is also called huaishan in Mandarin and w aih s an in Cantonese. It is a perennial climbing vine, native to East Asia. The edible tubers are cultivated largely in East Asia and sometimes used in alternative medicine. This species of yam is unique as the tubers can be eaten raw.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Dioscoreales

Dioscoreaceae

Dioscorea

polystachya

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Evan M. Raskin@BY
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(c) unknown@CC0
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(c) H. Zell@BY-SA
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(c) Matthew Hammond@BY-NC
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(c) Jeff Clark@BY

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Canada Quarantine pests 2019

Distribution (13 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

13
Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Belarus Present —
Brazil Present —
Switzerland Present —
China Present —
Czechia Present —
Hong Kong, China Present —
Japan Present —
Republic of Korea Present —
Mexico Present —
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (6 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR36412861 leaves 120days after sowing - 24481510 China: Nanjing
SRR36412860 leaves 120days after sowing - 28431933 China: Nanjing
SRR36412859 leaves 120days after sowing - 24880346 China: Nanjing
SRR36670985 tuber 150 days after planting - 22602956 China: Xinxiang City, Henan Province
SRR36670984 tuber 150 days after planting - 20046381 China: Xinxiang City, Henan Province
SRR36670983 tuber 180 days after planting - 23432276 China: Xinxiang City, Henan Province

DNA Barcodes (60 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
IPSUB879-18 - trnH-psbA 355 United States 2006-01-01 -
IPSUB859-18 - trnH-psbA 355 United States 2006-01-01 -
IPSUB629-18 - trnH-psbA 355 United States - -
IPSUB626-18 - trnH-psbA 355 Canada 1970-01-01 -
GBVU3082-13 - rbcL 1149 - - -
GBVU3079-13 - rbcL 1156 - - -
GBVU3073-13 - rbcL 1149 - - -
GBVU3053-13 - rbcL 1156 - - -
GBVU3050-13 - rbcL 1149 - - -
GBVU3049-13 - rbcL 1149 - - -
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Literature