Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1032 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 456 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 294 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 115 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1: 5 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Helmia Kunth legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 548 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1: 535 [secondary reference]

• Type: Dioscorea sativa L.

Burkill, I.H. (December 1951), Dioscoreaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(3): 299-303 [secondary reference]

Burkill, I.H. (1958), The organography and the evolution of Dioscoreaceae, the family of Yams. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 56: 319-412 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 447 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1228, 1229, 1230, 1231 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 19 [secondary reference]

Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Dioscoreaceae. Flora of Australia 46: 196-202 APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Dioscorea sect. Opsophyton Uline nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: WA, ChI, NT (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Dioscoreaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 736 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Dioscoreaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 51 [secondary reference]

Clifford, H.T., Conran, J.G. & Thongpukdee, A. (1992), Australian Lilies: Native and Naturalised species. Australian Plants 16(132): 368 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Dioscoreaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 985 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. (1993), Dioscoreaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 514-515 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Dioscoreaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 39 [secondary reference]

common name: Yams [n/a]

Huber, H. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Dioscoreaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 228-230, 230-232, 232-234 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 151 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 276 [secondary reference]

Soltis, D.E., Smith, S.A., Cellinese, N., Wurdack, K.J., Tank, D.C., Brockington, S.F., Refulio-Rodriguez, N.F., Walker, J.B., Moore, M.J., Carlswars, B.S., Bell, C.D., Latvis, M., Crawley, S., Black, C., Diouf, D., Xi, Z., Rushworth, C.A., Gitzendanner, M.A., Sytsma, K.J., Qui, Y., Hilu, K.W., Davis, C.C., Sanderson, M.J., Beaman, R.S., Olmstead, R.G., Judd, W.S., Donoghue, M.J. & Soltis, P.S. (1 April 2011), Angiosperm Phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa. American Journal of Botany 98(4): Fig. 2B [secondary reference]

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