Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
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 |
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External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): JatrophaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Jatropha
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Jatropha
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Jatropha
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Jatropha
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Jatropha
JSTOR Plant Science: Jatropha
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Jatropha
Plants of the World Online: Jatropha
Tropicos: Jatropha
Wikipedia: Jatropha