Manihot
Genus of trees
Manihot is a genus in the diverse milkspurge family , Euphorbiaceae . It was described as a genus in 1754.[ 5] [ 3]
Species of Manihot are monoecious [ 6] trees, shrubs and a few herbs that are native to the Americas , from Arizona in the United States south to Argentina and Uruguay.[ 4] The best known member of this genus is the widely cultivated cassava (Manihot esculenta ).[ 7]
Manihot species are used as food plants by the larvae of some species of Lepidoptera including Endoclita sericeus and Hypercompe hambletoni .
Species[ 4]
Manihot acuminatissima Müll.Arg. – Goiás , Bahia
Manihot aesculifolia (Kunth) Pohl – Mexico, Central America
Manihot alutacea D.J.Rogers & Appan – Goiás
Manihot angustiloba (Torr.) Müll.Arg. – Mexico, Arizona
Manihot anisophylla (Griseb.) Müll.Arg. – N Argentina
Manihot anomala Pohl – South America
Manihot attenuata Müll.Arg. - Goiás
Manihot auriculata McVaugh – Jalisco , Nayarit
Manihot baccata Allem – Fr Guiana , NE Brazil
Manihot brachyandra Pax & K.Hoffm. – Bahia
Manihot brachyloba Müll.Arg. – Central Amer , Dominican Rep , N South America
Manihot brasiliana Mendoza et al. - Goiás, Brazil
Manihot breviloba – Sergipe
Manihot caerulescens Pohl – Brazil, Paraguay
Manihot carthagenensis (Jacq.) Müll.Arg. – N South America, Trinidad, Curaçao
Manihot catingae Ule – Bahia , Minas Gerais
Manihot caudata Greenm. – N Mexico
Manihot cecropiifolia – Goiás , Distrito Federal
Manihot chlorosticta Standl. & Goldman – Mexico
Manihot compositifolia Allem – Bahia
Manihot condensata D.J.Rogers & Appan – Bolivia
Manihot congesta Mendoza et al. - Goiás, Brazil
Manihot corymbiflora Pax & K.Hoffm. – Rio de Janeiro
Manihot crassisepala Pax & K.Hoffm. – México State , Morelos , Jalisco
Manihot crotalariiformis Pohl – Minas Gerais
Manihot davisiae Croizat – Arizona , Sonora , Chihuahua , Sinaloa
Manihot diamantinensis Allem – Bahia
Manihot dichotoma Ule – NE Brazil
Manihot divergens Pohl – Goiás , Distrito Federal , Minas Gerais
Manihot epruinosa Pax & K.Hoffm. – Piauí , Ceará , Paraíba , Pernambuco , Bahia
Manihot esculenta Crantz – from Mexico to Brazil
Manihot falcata D.J.Rogers & Appan – Goiás , Distrito Federal
Manihot filamentosa Pittier – NW Venezuela
Manihot flemingiana D.J.Rogers & Appan – Mato Grosso
Manihot foetida (Kunth) Pohl – C + N Mexico
Manihot fortalezensis Nassar, D.G.Ribeiro, Bomfim & P.T.C.Gomes – Ceará
Manihot fruticulosa (Pax) D.J.Rogers & Appan – Brazil
Manihot gabrielensis Allem – Goiás
Manihot gracilis Pohl – Paraguay, Brazil
Manihot grahamii Hook. – S Brazil, N Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay
Manihot guaranitica Chodat & Hassl. – N Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia
Manihot handroana Cruz – Minas Gerais
Manihot hassleriana – Paraguay
Manihot heptaphylla Ule – Bahia
Manihot hilariana Baill. – Minas Gerais
Manihot hunzikeriana Mart.Crov. – Rio Grande do Sul , Misiones
Manihot incisa - Goiás, Brazil
Manihot inflata Müll.Arg. – São Paulo , Rio de Janeiro , Paraná
Manihot irwinii D.J.Rogers & Appan – Goiás
Manihot jacobinensis Müll.Arg. – Mato Grosso , Bahia
Manihot janiphoides Müll.Arg. – São Paulo , Minas Gerais
Manihot jolyana Cruz – São Paulo
Manihot leptophylla Pax – NW South America
Manihot longepetiolata Pohl – Goiás , Minas Gerais
Manihot maracasensis Ule – Bahia
Manihot marajoara Huber – Pará , Amapá
Manihot mcvaughii V.W.Steinm. – Michoacán
Manihot membranacea Pax & K.Hoffm. – Mato Grosso
Manihot michaelis McVaugh – Colima , Jalisco
Manihot mirabilis Pax – Paraguay
Manihot mossamedensis Taub. – Goiás
Manihot nana Müll.Arg. – Goiás , Minas Gerais
Manihot neusana Nassar – Paraná
Manihot nogueirae Allem – Distrito Federal
Manihot oaxacana D.J.Rogers & Appan – Oaxaca
Manihot obovata J.Jiménez Ram. – Guerrero
Manihot oligantha Pax & K.Hoffm. – Goiás
Manihot orbicularis Pohl – Goiás
Manihot palmata Müll.Arg. – Rio de Janeiro
Manihot pauciflora Brandegee – Puebla , Oaxaca
Manihot paviifolia Pohl – Goiás
Manihot peltata Pohl – Goiás
Manihot pentaphylla Pohl – Brazil, Paraguay
Manihot peruviana Müll.Arg. – Loreto , San Martin
Manihot pilosa Pohl – E Brazil
Manihot pinatiloba Goiás, Brazil
Manihot pohliana Müll.Arg. – Bahia
Manihot pohlii Wawra – Espírito Santo , Rio de Janeiro
Manihot populifolia Pax – Paraguay
Manihot porphyrantha Goiás, Brazil
Manihot pringlei S.Watson – Tamaulipas , San Luis Potosí , Querétaro
Manihot procumbens Müll.Arg. – Minas Gerais , São Paulo , Paraguay
Manihot pruinosa Pohl – Mato Grosso , Goiás
Manihot pseudoglaziovii Pax & K.Hoffm. – Ceará , Pernambuco , Rio Grande do Norte , Paraíba
Manihot pulchrifolius M.J. Silva – Brazil
Manihot purpureocostata Pohl – Goiás
Manihot pusilla Pohl – Goiás
Manihot quinquefolia Pohl – Bahia
Manihot quinqueloba Pohl – Mato Grosso , Goiás
Manihot quinquepartita Huber ex D.J.Rogers & Appan – Amapá , Pará , Maranhão , Mato Grosso
Manihot reniformis Pohl – Bahia
Manihot reptans Pax – Goiás , Minas Gerais
Manihot rhomboidea Müll.Arg. – Mexico, Central America
Manihot rubricaulis I.M.Johnst. – Mexico
Manihot sagittatopartita Pohl – Bahia , Goiás , Minas Gerais
Manihot salicifolia Pohl – Mato Grosso , Goiás
Manihot sparsifolia Pohl – Goiás
Manihot stipularis Pax – Distrito Federal , Goiás
Manihot stricta Baill. – Peru, Mato Grosso , Goiás
Manihot subspicata Rogers & Appan – Coahuila , Nuevo León , Tamaulipas
Manihot surinamensis D.J.Rogers & Appan – Venezuela, the 3 Guianas
Manihot tenella Müll.Arg. – São Paulo , Paraguay
Manihot tomatophylla Standl. – Morelos , Jalisco , Michoacán
Manihot tomentosa Pohl – Goiás , Minas Gerais
Manihot triloba (Sessé) McVaugh ex Miranda – Mexico
Manihot tripartita (Spreng.) Müll.Arg. – Brazil, Paraguay
Manihot triphylla Pohl – Distrito Federal , Goiás , Minas Gerais
Manihot tristis Müll.Arg. – Venezuela, the 3 Guianas, N Brazil
Manihot variifolia Pax & K.Hoffm. – Paraguay
Manihot violacea Pohl – Brazil
Manihot walkerae Croizat – Texas, Tamaulipas
Manihot websteri D.J.Rogers & Appan – Puebla , Oaxaca
Manihot weddelliana Baill. – Goiás
Manihot xavantinensis D.J.Rogers & Appan – Mato Grosso
Manihot zehntneri Ule – Bahia
variety treated as a species
Manihot carthaginensis subsp. glaziovii = Manihot glaziovii (Müll.Arg.) Allem
formerly included[ 4]
moved to Aleurites Cnidoscolus Jatropha
Pollination
Monoecy was demonstrated by Jennings 1963 and George & Shifriss 1967.[ 6]
References
^ a b "Genus: Manihot Mill" . Germplasm Resources Information Network . United States Department of Agriculture. 2004-03-31. Retrieved 2011-05-06 .
^ lectotype designated by R.A. Howard, Fl. Lesser Antilles 5: 64 (1989)
^ a b Tropicos, Manihot Mill.
^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ Miller, Philip. 1754. Gardeners Dictionary...Abridged...fourth edition vol. 2
^ a b Webster, G. L. (2014). "Euphorbiaceae". In Kubitzki, Klaus (ed.). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants - Volume XI - Flowering Plants, Eudicots - Malpighiales . Heidelberg : Springer . pp. 51–216/x+331. ISBN 978-3-642-39416-4 . OCLC 868922400 . ISBN 978-3-642-39417-1 . ISBN 3642394167 .
^ Second, G.; Iglesias, C. (2001). "Chapter 11: The State of the Use of Cassava Genetic Diversity and a Proposal to Enhance it". In Cooper, H.D.; Spillane, C.; Hodgkin, T. (eds.). Broadening the Genetic Base of Crop Production . CABI Publications (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International ) in association with Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and International Plant Genetic Resources Institute . pp. 201–221. ISBN 978-0-85199-411-6 . OCLC 44420773 .
External links
Media related to Manihot at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Manihot at Wikispecies
The dictionary definition of 'Manihot' at Wiktionary