Manihot palmata

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• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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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.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Jatropha manihot Vell. • Jatropha palmata Vell. • Manihot dulcis var. leptopoda (Müll. Arg.) Pax • Manihot leptopoda< /i> (Müll. Arg.) D. J. Rogers & Appan • Manihot palmata var. genuina Müll. Arg. • Manihot palmata var. leptopoda Müll. Arg.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Nov-2003

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

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• An annotated catalogue of types of the University of Illinois mycological collections (ILL) / Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1997. url p. 198.
• An enumeration of the vascular plants known from Surinam: together with their distribution and synonymy / by A. Pulle. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1906. url p. 261, p. 507, p. 533.
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• Bacteria in relation to plant diseases, by Erwin F. Smith. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie institution of Washington, 1905-14. url p. 280.
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1672632
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-119936
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14240576
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:351882-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 753080

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