Dioscoreaceae
Sweet mountain yam
Dioscorea tenuipes
- Family
- Dioscoreaceae
- Genus
- Dioscorea
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Common names
By language (3)
- Chinese
- 细柄薯蓣
- English
- Sweet mountain yam
- Korean
- 각시마
Synonyms
- Dioscorea acrotheca Uline ex R.Knuth
- Dioscorea maximowiczii Uline ex R.Knuth
Photos
Photo: harum.koh from Kobe city, Japan, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.