Summary
Place of publication:
Symb. antill. 4:311. 1905
Verified:
10/28/1988
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
Mexican-potato – potato-bean – yam-bean – French
patate cochon – pois patate – German
Yambohne – India
mishrikand – Spanish
jícama – judía batata – Swedish
jamsbönrot –
Distribution
| order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
| 1 | Native | Northern America | Northern Mexico | Mexico | San Luis Potosi | |
| 1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Chiapas | |
| 1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Guanajuato | |
| 1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Guerrero | |
| 1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Jalisco | |
| 1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Michoacan | |
| 1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Morelos | |
| 1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Oaxaca | |
| 1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Puebla | |
| 1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Veracruz | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Costa Rica | | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | El Salvador | | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Guatemala | | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Honduras | | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Nicaragua | | |
| 2 | Cultivated | | | | | |
| 4 | Naturalized | | | | | |
Native
Northern America
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NORTHERN MEXICO:
Mexico [San Luis Potosi]
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SOUTHERN MEXICO:
Mexico [Chiapas, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz]
Southern America
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MESOAMERICA:
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador
Cultivated
()
Naturalized
()
Economic Uses
| Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
| Animal food | forage | | Sørensen, M. 1990. Observations on distribution, ecology and cultivation of the tuber-bearing legume genus Pachyrhizus Rich. ex DC. Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 90-3:3. |
| Environmental | soil improver | | Duke, J. A. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. 1981 |
| Human food | vegetable | | Sørensen, M. 1990. Observations on distribution, ecology and cultivation of the tuber-bearing legume genus Pachyrhizus Rich. ex DC. Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 90-3:3. |
| Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. 1985 |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=26286.
Accessed 17 December 2025.