Dioscorea glandulosa

(Griseb.) Klotzsch ex Kunth

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Tubers, Root

The tubers are cooked and eaten, requiring long cooking times.

Where to Find It

A tropical plant. In Argentina it grows below 800 m above sea level.

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, South America,

Countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

How to Identify

A yam. It is a climbing plant producing annual stems from an underground rootstock or tuber. The stems twine around other plants. The tubers are small and round.

Medicinal Uses

The tubers are traditionally cooked and eaten.

Other Information

It is a cultivated yam.

Notes

There are about 650 species of Dioscorea.

Names & Synonyms

Karante

Dioscorea glandulosa var. glandulosaDioscorea multispicata R. KnuthDioscorea paranensis R. KnuthDioscorea piperifolia var. glandulosa Griseb.Dioscorea piperifolia var. legitima Griseb.Dioscorea piperifolia var. triangularis Griseb.Dioscorea recurva RusbyDioscorea sororia KunthDioscorea triangularis (Griseb.) R. Knuth [Illegitimate]Dioscorea undecimnervis Vell.

References (5)

Enum. pl. 5:352. 1850
Carretero, A. L., 2005, Useful Plants and Traditional knowledge in the Rucumano-Boliviano Forest. M.Sc. thesis. University of Aarhus-Denmark. (As Dioscorea multispicata)
Chu, E. P., Figueiredo-Ribeiro, R. C. L., 1991, Native and Exotic Species of Dioscorea Used as Food In Brazil. Economic Botany, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 467-479 (As Dioscorea triangularis)
Fern, K., 2012, Tropical Species Database http://theferns.info/tropical/
Kew Plants of the World Online