Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
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4433.000 Jatropha
Bailey, L.H. & Bailey, E.Z. (1976) Hortus Third. A concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc., New York
Description of the genus
Monoecious (rarely dioecious) trees, shrubs or herbs. Indumentum simple and/or glandular. Stipules present. Leaves alternate, simple, generally palmately lobed. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, cymose, often in the form of a corymb. Male flowers: calyx usually with 5 imbricate lobes; petals 5; stamens 8 in 2 whorls of 5 and 3; pistillode 0. Female flowers: calyx and petals as for male; stigmas 3, usually 2-fid. Fruit usually splitting into 3 2-valved cocci, rarely indehiscent. Worldwide: 175 species in tropical and warm regions Zimbabwe: 5 cultivated taxa. |
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Links to cultivated taxa View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Content |
| curcas L. | Description, Image |
| gossypiifolia L. var. elegans (Pohl) Müll. Arg. | Description, Image |
| integerrima Jacq. | Description, Image |
| multifida L. | Description, Image |
| podagrica Hook. | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Jatropha:
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Flora of Botswana: JatrophaFlora of Caprivi: Jatropha
Flora of Malawi: Jatropha
Flora of Malawi: cultivated Jatropha
Flora of Mozambique: Jatropha
Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Jatropha
Flora of Zambia: Jatropha
Flora of Zimbabwe: Jatropha
External websites:
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): JatrophaFlora Zambesiaca web site: Jatropha
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Jatropha
Wikipedia: Jatropha
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Jatropha
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Jatropha
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