Taxon: Xanthosoma brasiliense (Desf.) Engl.

• the 4 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• Tahitian-spinach   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• quélimbé   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• brasilianische Goldnarbe   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• belembé   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• calalú   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (fide Econ Bot 23:116. 1969; Proc Fla Hort Soc 85:88. 1972)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Dominica; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Martinique; Puerto Rico; St. Vincent and Grenadines - St. Vincent
  Brazil: Brazil [s.?]

• also cultivated

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Bunting, G. 1965. Commentary on Mexican Araceae. Gentes Herb. 9:375.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 2002. World checklist and bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae).
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Morton, J. F. 1972. Cocoyams (Xanthosoma caracu, X. atrovirens and X. nigrum), ancient root- and leaf-vegetables, gaining in economic importance. Proc. Florida State Hort. Soc. 85:88.
• Plowman, T. A. 1969. Folk uses of New World aroids. Econ. Bot. 23:116.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Xanthosoma brasiliense.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Xanthosoma brasiliense.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Xanthosoma brasiliense.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Caladium brasiliense Desf. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Xanthosoma brasiliense (Desf.) Engl.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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