Ipomoea batatas

Ipomoea batatasflorescens (HemingwayCarolinae Meridionalis

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Plantae—Angiospermae

Eudicotyledones
Asteridae
Ordo:Solanales
Familia:Convolvulaceae
Genus:Ipomoea
Species:I. batatas

Ipomoea batatas
Lam.

Ipomoea batatas(binomenabIoanne Baptista Lamarckioanno1793statutum), Latinitate communibatatas,est species quae ad familiamConvolvulacearumpertinet. Eius origo estAmerica Meridionalis,sed nunc in omnibus regionibus tropicalibus colitur, quiaradixsua editur.

Tuberibus facultas aphrodisiaca olim attribuebatur: undeIoannes FalstaffpersonaShakesperianainThe Merry Wives of Windsor(act. 5 sc. 5) pluvium e caelo batatarum requisivisse fingitur (Let the skie raine potatoes).

Bibliographia

TuberaIpomoeae batatas

Fontes antiquiores

• 1530:Petrus Martyr ab Angleria,De orbe novo decadesff.33v,45v
• 1526/1557:Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés,Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierra-firme del mar Océano(José Amador de los Rios, ed. 4 voll. Matriti: Real Academia de la Historia, 1851-1855vol. 1 pp. 272-274)
• 1565: John Sparke inRichard Hakluyt,The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation(1a ed. Londinii: George Bishop, 1589)p. 530(potatoes)
• 1597:John Gerard,The Herball, or generall historie of plantespp. 780-781 "potatoes"
• 1601:Carolus Clusius,Rariorum plantarum historia(Antverpiae)appendix p. 78
• 1629:John Parkinson,Paradisi in sole Paradisus terrestris(Londinii: Humphrey Lownes)pp. 516-518"pappas or battatas: potatoes"
• 1745:Georgius Everhardus Rumphius,Herbarium Amboinense(Amstelaedami: Chanquion, 1741-1750) vol. 5 p. 367, tab. 130; cf. E. D. Merrill,An Interpretation of Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense.Manilae: Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bureau of Science, 1917pp. 442-444
• 1793:Jean Baptiste Lamarck,Tableau Encyclopédique et Methodique... Botaniquevol. 1 p. 465

Eruditio

• Sophie D. Coe,America's First Cuisines(Austinopoli: University of Texas Press, 1994) pp. 19-26, 162

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communiaplura habent quae adIpomoea batatasspectant.

Vide"Ipomoea batatas"apudVicispecies.