Ipomoea batatas
Ipomoea batatas (binomen ab Ioanne Baptista Lamarckio anno 1793 statutum), Latinitate communi batatas, est species quae ad familiam Convolvulacearum pertinet. Eius origo est America Meridionalis, sed nunc in omnibus regionibus tropicalibus colitur, quia radix sua editur.

Tuberibus facultas aphrodisiaca olim attribuebatur: unde Ioannes Falstaff persona Shakesperiana in The Merry Wives of Windsor (act. 5 sc. 5) pluvium e caelo batatarum requisivisse fingitur (Let the skie raine potatoes).

Notae

Bibliographia 

 Fontes antiquiores
 1530 : 
 1526/1557 : 
 1565 : John Sparke in Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1a ed. Londinii: George Bishop, 1589) p. 530 (potatoes)
 1597 : 
 1601 : 
 1629 : John Parkinson, Paradisi in sole Paradisus terrestris (Londinii: Humphrey Lownes) pp. 516-518 "pappas or battatas: potatoes"
 1745 :  vol. 5 p. 367, tab. 130; cf.  pp. 442-444
 1793 : Jean Baptiste Lamarck, Tableau Encyclopédique et Methodique ... Botanique vol. 1 p. 465

 Eruditio
 Sophie D. Coe, America's First Cuisines (Austinopoli: University of Texas Press, 1994) pp. 19-26, 162

Nexus externi 

Species plantarum
Ipomoea
Radices esculentae
Victualia
Fruges Americae mediae
Taxa Lamarck
Taxa 1793