Botanical name:
Oncus esculentus Lour. Dioscoreaceae.
Related entry: Dioscorea
India. Royle says this plant has large, farinaceous and edible tubers.
Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.
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