Dioscorea collettii Hook. f. var. hypoglauca (Palib.) C. Pei & C. T. Ting GRIN-Global

Taxon: Dioscorea collettii Hook. f. var. hypoglauca (Palib.) C. Pei & C. T. Ting

Summary

Genus:

Dioscorea

Family:

Dioscoreaceae

Nomen number:

418836

Place of publication:

Acta Phytotax. Sin. 14(1):66. 1976

Verified:

03/24/2006 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in Australian Pastures Genebank.

Other conspecific taxa

Dioscorea collettii Hook. f. (0 active accession[s])
Dioscorea collettii Hook. f. var. collettii (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym

Dioscorea hypoglauca Palib.

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Reference(s)

Bensky, D., A. Gamble, & T. J. Kaptchuk. Chinese herbal medicine: Materia medica, rev. ed. 1993
Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
Hu, K. & X. S. Yao. 2001. Methyl protogracillin (NSC-698792): the spectrum of cytotoxicity against 60 human cancer cell lines in the National Cancer Institute's anticancer drug screen panel. Anti-Cancer Drugs 12:541-547.
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. World economic plants: a standard reference (on-line edition) [medicinal plants only].
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994-

Common names

Transcribed Chinese
fen bei shu yu –

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	State
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	China	China	Anhui
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	China	China	Fujian
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	China	China	Guangdong
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	China	China	Guangxi
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	China	China	Henan
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	China	China	Hubei
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	China	China	Hunan
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	China	China	Jiangxi
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	China	China	Zhejiang
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Eastern Asia	Taiwan

Native
Asia-Temperate

CHINA: China [Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi]
EASTERN ASIA: Taiwan

Economic Uses

Usage	Type	Note	Reference
Medicines	potential source of pharmaceutical agent		Hu, K. & X. S. Yao. 2001. Methyl protogracillin (NSC-698792): the spectrum of cytotoxicity against 60 human cancer cell lines in the National Cancer Institute's anticancer drug screen panel. Anti-Cancer Drugs 12:541-547.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=418836. Accessed 2 August 2025.