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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
Monoecy was demonstrated by Jennings 1963 and George & Shifriss 1967.
[6]
^
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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)
^
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b
Tropicos, Manihot Mill.
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c
d
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ Miller, Philip. 1754. Gardeners Dictionary...Abridged...fourth edition vol. 2
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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 .
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