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Dioscoreales
Taxonomy
Dioscoreales was named by Brown (1835). It is extant.
It was assigned to Liliidae by Mabberley (2000); to Monocots by Taylor et al. (2008); and to Monocots by The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016).
It was assigned to Liliidae by Mabberley (2000); to Monocots by Taylor et al. (2008); and to Monocots by The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1835 | Dioscoreales Brown |
| 2000 | Dioscoreales Mabberley |
| 2008 | Dioscoreales Taylor et al. p. 1029 |
| 2016 | Dioscoreales The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |
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Or. Dioscoreales Brown 1835
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Fm. Dioscoreaceae Brown 1810
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G. Dioscorea Linnaeus 1753 [yam]
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†Dioscorea cretacea Lesquereux 1874
†Dioscorea wilkinii Pan et al. 2014
Invalid names: Lasiophyton Uline 1897 [empty]
G. †Dioscoreophyllum Kraeusel and Weyland 1954
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†Dioscoreophyllum liblarense Kraeusel and Weyland 1954
Invalid names: Burmanniaceae von Blume 1827 [empty], Nartheciaceae Fries 1846 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Late/Upper Pliocene or 37.00000 to 2.58000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Chadronian | USA (Colorado) | Dioscorea sp. (24209) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Ethiopia | Dioscorea wilkinii (169320) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Ethiopia | Tacca umerii (169321) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Panama | Dioscoreaceae indet. (32396) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene | Colombia (Santander) | Dioscorea sp. (32100) | |
| Langhian | Germany (Sachsen) | Dioscorea liblarensis (27517) | |
| Serravallian | Kenya | Dioscorea longicuspis (22266) Dioscorea sp. (22315) Dioscoreaceae indet. (22311 22312) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | China (Yunnan) | Dioscorea sp. (224402) |