By Rafaël Govaerts,Paul Wilkin,Richard M K Saunders

ISBN-10: 1842462008

ISBN-13: 9781842462003

Dioscoreales are a small yet systematically and economically major order of monocotyledons. the main assorted and demanding member is the yam genus, Dioscorea L., a resource of nutritional starch at macroeconomic to rural neighborhood degrees. different species of Dioscorea supplied the chemical foundation of corticosteroid medicines and oral contraceptives. best friend households include the weird, principally achlorophyllous (heteromycotrophic) Burmanniaceae and the really unspecialised Nartheciaceae.

The World list of Dioscoreales lists all validly released names of yams and their allies, supplying the resource in their ebook and indication of which names are at present approved and that are synonyms, making it a regular nomenclatural reference for additional examine into this crucial family.

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