Pagare, R.S.; Wilson, A.; Krishnan, S.; Janarthanam, M.K.
(Phytotaxa. 233(3); 2015; 298-300.)
Dioscorea Linnaeus (1753: 1032) is represented by ca. 616 species worldwide (eMonocot, 2015). Prain & Burkill (1936, 1938) reported ca. 50 species from India, while Karthikeyan et al. (1989) in their 'Florae Indicae ...