Editing Dioscorides (section)

== Legacy ==
[[File:Dioscorea communis RF.jpg|thumb|The genus ''Dioscorea'' includes different species of [[Dioscorea alata|yam]].]]
{{Lang|la|De materia medica}} formed the core of the European pharmacopeia through the 19th century, suggesting that "the timelessness of Dioscorides' work resulted from an empirical tradition based on trial and error; that it worked for generation after generation despite social and cultural changes and changes in medical theory".<ref name="Vos 2010" />

The plant genus ''[[Dioscorea]]'', which includes the [[yam (vegetable)|yam]], was named after him by [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]].

A butterfly, the bush hopper, ''[[Ampittia dioscorides]]'' which is found from India southeast towards Indonesia and east towards China,  is named after him.<ref>{{cite book |title=Florida Ethnobotany |author=Austin, Daniel F. |edition=illustrated |publisher=CRC Press |year=2004 |isbn=9780203491881 |page=267}}</ref>