Tamus
Dioscorea is a genus of over 600 species of flowering plants in the family Dioscoreaceae, native throughout the tropical and warm temperate regions of the world. The vast majority of the species are tropical, with only a few species extending into temperate climates. It was named by the monk Charles Plumier after the ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides.
6 branches of this group, most-observed first
Black Bryony
speciesDioscorea communis
Forest Elephantsfoot
speciesDioscorea sylvatica
Elephant's Foot
speciesDioscorea elephantipes
Dioscorea edulis
speciesDioscorea edulis
Lady's-seal
speciesDioscorea orientalis
Dioscorea cretica
speciesDioscorea cretica
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the old herbals & bestiaries
Kircher: China Illustrata (1667)
Athanasius Kircher · 1667 · p.262
Georg Wolfgang Knorr — Deliciae naturae selectae (1771)
Georg Wolfgang Knorr · 1771 · p.352
Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.653
Flora Sinensis (Chinese-Latin Natural History)
Michał Boym · 1656 · p.69
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.731
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.729
History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.723
History of Monsters
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1642 · p.931
History of Monsters
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1642 · p.932
Noah's Ark
Athanasius Kircher · 1675 · p.118
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.601
Georg Wolfgang Knorr — Deliciae naturae selectae (1771)
Georg Wolfgang Knorr · 1771 · p.350
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Tamus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1201252.