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Dioscoreaceae
Taxonomy
Dioscoreaceae was named by Brown (1810). It is extant.
It was assigned to Liliales by Knowlton (1919); and to Dioscoreales by Mabberley (2000), Taylor et al. (2008) and The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016).
It was assigned to Liliales by Knowlton (1919); and to Dioscoreales by Mabberley (2000), Taylor et al. (2008) and The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1810 | Dioscoreaceae Brown |
| 1919 | Dioscoreaceae Knowlton |
| 2000 | Dioscoreaceae Mabberley |
| 2008 | Dioscoreaceae Taylor et al. p. 1029 |
| 2016 | Dioscoreaceae The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group p. 15 |
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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
G. †Rimilatericutis Roselt and Schneider 1969
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†Rimilatericutis tenuis Roselt and Schneider 1969
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available