| Name | Dioscorea villosa Linnaeus |
| Authorship | Linnaeus |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Dioscorea Linnaeus |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:318778-1 |
| Citation | 1753 Sp. Pl. 2:1033 |
| Holdings | 34 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Dioscorea villosa Linnaeus |
| Identification made in | [no date] (31), 1921 (1), 2000 (2) |