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Taxon:  Dioscorea elephantipes (LʼHér.) Engl.



Summary
Genus:
Dioscorea
Family:
Dioscoreaceae
Nomen number:
14203
Place of publication:
H. G. A. Engler & C. G. O. Drude, Veg. Erde 9(II):367. 1908 (Pflanzenw. Afrikas)
Verified:
02/24/2006 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Tamus elephantipes LʼHér.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Testudinaria elephantipes (LʼHér.) A. Dicks.

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Reference(s)
  1. Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
  2. Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14
  3. Goldblatt, P. & J. Manning. 2000. Cape plants: a conspectus of the Cape flora of South Africa. Strelitzia vol. 9.
  4. Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
  5. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Common names
English
elephant's-foot –
Hottentot-bread –
Afrikaans
hottentotsbrood –
German
Elefantenfuß –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaCape Province 
2Cultivated    also cult.
Native
Africa
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa [Cape Province]
Cultivated (also cult.)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Environmentalornamental Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grip.mawarid.gov.om/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=14203. Accessed 25 April 2025.