| Name | Ipomoea batatas (Linnaeus) Lamarck |
| Authorship | (Linnaeus) Lamarck |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Ipomoea Linnaeus |
| Contains | Ipomoea batatas var. apiculata (M. Martens & Galeotti) J. A. McDonald & D. F. Austin |
| Citation | 1791 Tabl. Encycl. 1(2[2]): 465 |
| Holdings | 182 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Ipomoea batatas (Linnaeus) Lamarck |
| Identification made in | [no date] (180), 1960 (1), 1984 (1) |