Cultivated
A shrub ; up to 5 m high , glabrous . Stems with little-branches ; young shoots glaucous , greenish grey ; bark smooth , often reddish . Leaves alternate , simple , 6–14(–17) x 1–6 cm , deeply lobed , often not peltate , lobes oblanceolate , apex acuminate , margin entire . Inflorescences branched raceme , 8–11 cm long . Flowers monoecious . Male flower: pedicel 5 mm long , decurved ; calyx cylindric-conic in bud , tube 6 mm long , lobes 6 x 4 mm , greenish orange and crimson , sometimes dark-veined . Female flower: pedicel 7 mm extending to 25 mm ; sepals 10 x 5 mm ; styles and stigmas looking like bunch of grapes . Fruit capsule , 15–17 x 15 mm , ellipsoidal to subglobose , rugulose , 6-winged , wings undulate-subcrenate . Seeds 11 x 5 . 5 x 3 . 5 mm , ± 5-sided , pale grey , sometimes mottled ; caruncle 3 mm wide . (Ref . POWO ; 2023) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Janipha manihot (L.) Kunth
Jatropha manihot L.
Manihot manihot (L.) H.Karst.
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Cassava
Bitter Cassava
Manioc
Tapioca
Yuca
Not recorded yet.
*Ghazanfar, S. (2007). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.2: Crassulaceae – Apiaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 36). ISBN 9789072619747 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org *Hammer, K. Gebauer, J. Al Khanjari, S. Buerkert, A. (2009). Oman at the cross-roads of inter-regional exchange of cultivated plants. Gene Resour Crop Evol (2009) 56:547-560. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008. DOI 10.1007/s10722-008-9385-z. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
