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Table 1 Sheko and Bench folk classification of yams at and above the species level

From: Indigenous biosystematics of yams (Dioscorea spp.) in Southwest Ethiopia: folk taxonomy, ethnolinguistic analysis, and folk descriptors

Scientific name

References

Context

Folk generic names

Sheko

Bench

Dioscorea alata

Present study, [10,11,12]

Cultivated

Kachi

Boyye/Kachi

Dioscorea bulbifera

Present study, [10,11,12]

Wild

Karka-Ama

Balakay-Oake

 

Cultivated

Ama

Oake

Dioscorea cayenensis complex

Present study, [10,11,12, 27, 28]

Wild

Karka-Kachi

Shah-boy (Karckabat)

Cultivated

Kachi

Boyye/Kachi

Manihot esculenta

Present study

Cultivated

Enchet-kachi

Enchet-kachi