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Manihot grahamii

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Name

Identification
Manihot grahamii Hook. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Manihot tweedieana Chodat & Hassl. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Manihot tweediana
  • Manihot tweedieana
  • Manihot grahamii
  • Janipha loeflingii
  • Manihot lobata
  • Manihot palmata
  • Manihot utilissima

Flora

Entry for Manihot grahamii Hook. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Names
Manihot grahamii Hook. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Icon. Pl. 6, t. 530 (1843). —Rogers & Appan, Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 13: 88 (1973). —Radcliffe-Smith in F.T.E.A., Euphorb. 1: 367 (1987). Type from Brazil (Paraná).
Janipha loeflingii var. multifida Grah. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Edinb. Philos. J. 29: 172 (1840). Type as above.
Manihot palmata var. multifida Grah. Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in De Candolle, Prodr. 15, 2: 1062 (1866).
Information
Very similar to M. esculenta, but differing in having the leaf blades 12–30 cm wide, 6–13-lobed, with the lobes narrowly oblanceolate-oblong and often subpanduriform, the median lobe 6.5–16 × 1–4 cm; the disk in both sexes bright orange; the fruits slightly larger (1.8 × 1.9 cm) and without wings; the seeds biconvex with a sharp lateral ridge.
Range
Occasionally cultivated in the Old World tropics, chiefly as an ornamental, but also in Cassava breeding research. Native of E tropical S America from Surinam to northern Argentina.
Distribution
Zimbabwe W Bulawayo, fr. 23.i.1979, Parsons in GHS 263941 (SRGH); 25.i.1979, Judge in GHS 263942 (SRGH).

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