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Bourke 1982

Bourke, R. Michael. 1982. Root crops in Papua New Guinea. In Bourke, R. M. & Kesavan, V. (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Papua New Guinea Food Crops Conference, 51-63.

Links

  • 1885/286660

References

  • 3.9 Staple foods: root crops, bananas, breadfruit and sago
    • Root crops
    • Yams, Dioscorea spp.
    • Why so few yam terms?
    • Dioscorea bulbifera, potato yam, aerial yam, air potato (Dioscoreaceae)
    • Cyrtosperma merkusii (syn. Cyrtosperma chamissonis, Cyrtosperma edule), swamp taro, giant taro, P kakake, kakama, B wota taro (Araceae)
    • Alocasia macrorrhizos (syn.Alocasia macrorrhiza, Alocasia indica), giant taro, elephant ear taro, P waeltaro (Araceae)
    • Summary
  • 3.13 Other cultivated plants
    • Cordyline fruticosa (syn. Cordyline terminalis, Taetsia fruticosa), cordyline, victory leaf, ti plant, TP tangget, Bnanggaria (Agavaceae)

BibTeX

@incollection{Bourke1982,
  author    = {Bourke, R. Michael},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second Papua New Guinea Food Crops Conference},
  editor    = {Bourke, R. M. & Kesavan, V.},
  pages     = {51-63},
  title     = {Root crops in Papua New Guinea},
  url       = {http://hdl.handle.net/1885/286660},
  year      = {1982},
  sections  = {None}
}
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