Summary
Place of publication:
Phytologia 39:51. 1978
Verified:
06/05/1995
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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Common names
Aymara (Peru)
aricoma – French
poire de terre – Spanish
jíquima – jiquimilla – llacón – yacón – Swedish
yacón –
Distribution
| order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Bolivia | | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Ecuador | | |
| 1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Peru | | |
| 2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Western South America | Bolivia | | |
| 2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
| 2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Western South America | Ecuador | | |
| 2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Western South America | Peru | | |
| 6 | Other | | | | | |
Native
Southern America
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Cultivated
Southern America
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Other
()
Economic Uses
| Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
| Human food | vegetable | | Zandstra, I. 1994. Japanese, Swiss, Germans collaborate with CIP to save endangered biodiversity of Andean roots and tubers. Diversity 10:31-33. |
| Medicines | folklore | | Desmarchelier, C. 2010. Neotropics and natural ingredients for pharmaceuticals: why isn?t South American biodiversity on the crest of the wave? Phytotherapy Res. 24:793. |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=402296.
Accessed 15 May 2026.