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World Checklist of Dioscoreales

World Checklist of Dioscoreales

Paperback

Series: World Checklist

Botany & Horticulture

ISBN10: 1842462008
ISBN13: 9781842462003
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Published: Jan 15 2000
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Dioscoreales are a small but systematically and economically significant order of monocotyledons. The most diverse and important member is the yam genus, Dioscorea L., a source of dietary starch at macroeconomic to rural community levels. Other species of Dioscorea provided the chemical basis of corticosteroid drugs and oral contraceptives. Ally families comprise the unusual, largely achlorophyllous (heteromycotrophic) Burmanniaceae and the relatively unspecialised Nartheciaceae.

The World Checklist of Dioscoreales lists all validly published names of yams and their allies, providing the source of their publication and indication of which names are currently accepted and which are synonyms, making it a standard nomenclatural reference for further research into this important family.

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