Dioscorea Linnaeus 1753 (yam)
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Angiospermae - Dioscoreales - Dioscoreaceae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum 1-1200
Parent taxon: Dioscoreaceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1919
See also Jacobs and Kabuye 1987 and Pan et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Asterocalyx, Dioscoreophyllum, Dioscorites, Prototamus, Rimilatericutis, Tacca
Subtaxa: Dioscorea cretacea Dioscorea wilkinii Lasiophyton
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Pliocene of China (1 collection)
• Miocene of Colombia (1), Germany (1), Kenya (2)
• Oligocene of Ethiopia (1)
• Eocene of United States (1: Colorado)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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