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Genus: Cnidoscolus
Family: Euphorbiaceae subfamily: Crotonoideae tribe: Manihoteae.
Nomen number: 70189
Place of publication: Contr. Gray Herb. 68:86. 1923
Name verified on: 18-Jul-1988 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-1997
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions:
1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
- cabbage-star (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- tree-spinach (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- manioc bâtard (Source: F LAnt
) – French
- chaya (Source: F Guat
) – Spanish
- copapayo (Source: F Guat
) – Spanish
- More:
Native:
- NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico [s.]
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Mesoamerica: Belize; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua
Naturalized:
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
- Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi.
1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
- Burger, W. C., ed.
1971–. Flora costaricensis.
- Govaerts, R. et al.
2000. World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae.
- Howard, R.
1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
- Kartesz, J. T.
1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
- 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.
- Ross-Ibarra, J. & A. Molina-Cruz.
2002. The ethnobotany of chaya (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius ssp. aconitifolius Breckon): a nutritious Maya vegetable.
Econ. Bot.
56:350–365.
- Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark.
1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
- Webster, G. L. & M. J. Huft.
1988. Revised synopsis of Panamanian Euphorbiaceae.
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
75:114.
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Cnidoscolus aconitifolius (Mill.) I. M. Johnst.:
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- PROTABASE: Plant Resources of
Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
- 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.
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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?70189 (19 May 2013)
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