Manihot esculenta Crantz

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SOTANICAL
DUMAGUETE (CUERNOS MTS.), PROVINCE OF NEGROS ORIENTAL
ISLAND OF NEGROS, APRIL, 1908
Monograph of Manihot (Euphorbiaceae)
Man ¡hot esculenta Crantz
Rogers, D. J. & S. G. Appan, taxon no. 1
in Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 13
Annotated June, 1971
9959« Hfenihot utilissima Pbhl. Crookedly branched
shrub, S to 3 m» high, in open lands of the hemp region
end about native hats; stems terete, 1 to £ inches thick,
grayish brown, smooth except the prominent excrescences
of the old p#tiole bases; youndk twigs green; leaves sub-
membranous, 1 to 7-digitate, glaucous beneath; recurred
segments subluoid above and coiadupliea&e; inflorescence
from the forks of the branchleta, divaricate, green;
flowers odorless, pendulous, the perianth Jcellowish green;
ovary flat, cognate, lemon yellow; filaments whitish,
strongly incurved; anthers lighter yellow than the ovary;
nuts pendulous, glaucous green, subglobose, 6-wiaged;
cells 3; the solitary seed brown or mottled, smooth, the
apical portion provided with a fleshy white caruncle; the
base of the nut set upon a	^&m|g&i-aahoyi*
Beuaaguete, April, 1908*
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PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PLANTS
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