Dioscorea elephantipes

Summary

Dioscorea elephantipes is a taxon^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (47 views/month, #1,584 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• Dioscorea elephantipes's image is recorded as Dioscorea elephantipes, Cederberg, Western Cape, South Africa 1.jpg^[3].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's instance of is recorded as taxon^[4].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's taxon rank is recorded as species^[5].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Least Concern^[6].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's parent taxon is recorded as Dioscorea^[7].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's endemic to is recorded as South Africa^[8].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's taxon name is recorded as Dioscorea elephantipes^[9].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's Commons category is recorded as Dioscorea elephantipes^[10].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's has basionym is recorded as Tamus elephantipes^[11].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's IUCN taxon ID is recorded as 100890140^[12].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08wtl3^[13].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 145284^[14].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's ITIS TSN is recorded as 506489^[15].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1121048^[16].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2755523^[17].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dioscorea elephantipes^[18].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's Commons gallery is recorded as Dioscorea elephantipes^[19].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's Tropicos ID is recorded as 11000438^[20].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's IPNI plant ID is recorded as 317936-1^[21].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's Plant List ID is recorded as kew-240107^[22].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[23].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as plant/elephants-foot^[24].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=14203^[25].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's USDA PLANTS ID is recorded as DIEL2^[26].
• Dioscorea elephantipes's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'D. elephantipes'}^[27].

Why It Matters

Dioscorea elephantipes ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (47 views/month, #1,584 of 195,241).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]