Plant Details

Accepted name:: Dioscorea nipponica subsp. rosthornii (Diels) C.T.Ting [Dioscoreaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies of:: Dioscorea nipponica Makino
Infraspecies:: Dioscorea nipponica subsp. nipponica

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
穿山龙	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Dioscorea acerifolia var. rosthornii Diels Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 261 (1900).
Dioscorea nipponica var. rosthornii (Diels) Prain & Burkill J. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 10: 14 (1914).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Dioscorea nipponica Makino subsp. rosthornii (Prain & Burkill) C.T.Ting	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Dioscorea nipponica Makino subsp. rosthornii (Prain et Burkill) C. T. Ting.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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