Manihot carthaginensis

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Euphorbiaceae

The Euphorbiaceae are mostly monoecious herbs, shrubs , and trees , sometimes succulent and cactus-like, comprising one of the largest families of plants with about 300 genera and 7,500 species that are further characterized by the frequent occurrence of milky sap . The leaves are mostly alternate but may be opposite or whorled and they are simple , or compound , or sometimes highly reduced. Stipules are generally present but may be reduced to hairs , glands or spines. The flowers are unisexual and usually actinomorphic . They may be highly reduced by suppression of parts, in the extreme form consisting of a naked stamen as a male flower and a naked pistil as a female flower. A specialized type of miniature inflorescence called a cyathium occurs in about 1,500 species comprising the genera Euphorbia and Chamaesyce. The cyathium consists of a single naked pistillate flower surrounded by cymes of naked staminate flowers, each consisting of a single stamen. These flowers are all enclosed in a cup-like involucre that typically is provided with peripheral nectaries and petaloid appendages such that the whole aggregation closely resembles a single flower. In other members of the family the flowers and inflorescences are more ordinary in appearance , with male and female flowers typically bearing a 5-merous calyx and corolla of distinct segments, although the corolla is sometimes absent. In these forms the androecium most commonly consists of 5, 10 or sometimes numerous distinct or monadelphous stamens. The gynoecium of female flowers consists of a single compound pistil of typically 3 carpels, an equal number of styles or primary style branches, and a superior ovary with typically 3 locules, each bearing 1 or 2 collateral , axile-apical pendulous ovules. The fruit is usually a capsular schizocarp. -- Gerald Carr.

Physical Description

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Jatropha carthaginensis Jacq. • Jatropha frutescens Loefl. • Jatropha janipha L. • Manihot janipha (L.) Pohl • Manihot meridensis Pittier • Manihot pittieri Pax & K. Hoffm. • Manihot remotiloba Pittier

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Nov-2003

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Manihot

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 17 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

M. angustiloba (Desertmountain Manihot) · M. caerulescens (Manicoba) · M. caerulescens caerulescens (Manicoba) · M. carthaginensis (Ceara Rubbertree) · M. catingae (Manicoba Brava) · M. davisiae (Arizona Manihot) · M. dichotoma (Manicoba Rubber) · M. esculenta (Bitter Cassava) · M. esculenta esculenta (Tapioca) · M. esculenta 'Variegata' (Variegated Tapioca) · M. grahamii (Graham's Manihot) · M. palmata (Brazilian Arrowroot) · M. subspicata (Spiked Manihot) · M. tristis (Manihot) · M. tristis saxicola (Manihot) · M. tristis tristis (Manihot) · M. walkerae (Walker's Manihot)

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Further Reading

• Bulletin of miscellaneous information. Additional Series. Royal Gardens, Kew. 4 1900 [Kew, Surrey: Royal Botanic Gardens], 1898-1936; url p. 248.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1902-1971. url .
• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- url p. 23, p. 43.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 16 1912-1916 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 343, p. 375, p. 479, p. 642, p. 643, p. X.
• Flora Costaricensis / William Burger, editor. 36 1995 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1995. url p. 168.
• Flora of Costa Rica. .. by Paul C. Standley. .. 18 1937 Chicago, 1937. url p. 615.
• Flora of Yucatan, by Paul C. Standley. 3 1930 Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1930. url p. 330.
• Native woody plants of the United States, their erosion-control and wildlife values. Washington, U. S. Govt. print. off., 1938. url p. 145, p. 167.
• Novon a journal of botanical nomenclature from the Missouri Botanical Garden. 11 2001 St. Louis, MO: Missouri Botanical Garden, url p. 157, p. 158, p. 160, p. 161.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 455.
• The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url p. 328, p. 61.
• The flora of the Dutch West Indian islands. .. by I. Boldingh. Leyden, E. J. Brill, 1909-14. url p. 170, p. 175, p. 179, p. 186, p. 55.
• The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 1991.
• The vegetation of a desert mountain range as conditioned by climatic factors, Washington, D. C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1915. url .
• Trees and shrubs of Mexico / By Paul C. Standley. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1920-1926. url p. 642, p. 643.
• Wrightia. 7 1981-1984 Richardson, Tex. [etc.]University of Texas at Dallas. url p. 143, p. 206.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
• World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Release date: November 27, 2009

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 2008:

• Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Bioversity International: The System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources (SINGER)
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México (IE-BAJÍO)
• GBIF-Spain: Real Jardin Botanico (Madrid), Vascular Plant Herbarium (MA)
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus: The AAU Herbarium Database
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Herbarium of New South Wales: Plants of Papua New Guinea
• USDA PLANTS: USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3456365
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-119754
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:351755-1
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 503689
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDEUP0Z030
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: MAGL5
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1071057

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