Dioscorea bulbifera Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 1033. 1753 Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D) Jarvis, Charlie 36CFW L. Linnaeus 1753 Liliopsida Dioscoreaceae Dioscorea Plantae Dioscoreales Tracheophyta species bulbifera      Dioscorea bulbiferaLinnaeus,  Species Plantarum2: 1033. 1753.  "Habitat in Indiis." RCN: 7457.   Lectotype(Milne-Redhead in Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Dioscoreaceae:10. 1975): [icon] " Rizophora Zeylanica" in Hermann, Parad. Bat.: 217. 1698 (see p. 136).