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The genus Manihot is in the family Euphorbiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Manihot

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Manihot acuminatissima Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot aesculifolia (Kunth) Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot alutacea D.J.Rogers & Appan	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot angustiloba (Torr.) Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot anisophylla (Griseb.) Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot anomala Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot attenuata Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot auriculata McVaugh	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot baccata Allem	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot brachyandra Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot brachyloba Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot caerulescens Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot carthaginensis (Jacq.) Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot catingae Ule	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot caudata Greenm.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot cecropiifolia Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot chlorosticta Standl. & Goldman	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot compositifolia Allem	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot condensata D.J.Rogers & Appan	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot corymbiflora Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot crassisepala Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot crotalariiformis Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot davisiae Croizat	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot diamantinensis Allem	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot dichotoma Ule	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot divergens Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot epruinosa Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot esculenta Crantz	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot falcata D.J.Rogers & Appan	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot filamentosa Pittier	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot flemingiana D.J.Rogers & Appan	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot foetida (Kunth) Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot fruticulosa (Pax) D.J.Rogers & Appan	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot gabrielensis Allem	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot gracilis Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot grahamii Hook.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot guaranitica Chodat & Hassl.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot handroana Cruz	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot hassleriana Chodat	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot heptaphylla Ule	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot hilariana Baill.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot hunzikeriana Mart.Crov.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot inflata Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot irwinii D.J.Rogers & Appan	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot jacobinensis Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot janiphoides Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot jolyana Cruz	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot leptophylla Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot longipetiolata Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot maracasensis Ule	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot marajoara Huber	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot mcvaughii V.W.Steinm.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot membranacea Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot michaelis McVaugh	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot mirabilis Pax	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot mossamedensis Taub.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot nana Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot neusana Nassar	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot nogueirae Allem	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot oaxacana D.J.Rogers & Appan	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot obovata J.Jiménez Ram.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot oligantha Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot orbicularis Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot palmata Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot pauciflora Brandegee	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot paviifolia Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot peltata Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot pentaphylla Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot peruviana Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot pilosa Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot pohliana Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot pohlii Wawra	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot populifolia Pax	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot pringlei S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot procumbens Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot pruinosa Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot pseudoglaziovii Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot purpureocostata Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot pusilla Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot quinquefolia Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot quinqueloba Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot quinquepartita Huber ex D.J.Rogers & Appan	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot reniformis Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot reptans Pax	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot rhomboidea Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot rubricaulis I.M.Johnst.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot sagittatopartita Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot salicifolia Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot sparsifolia Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot stipularis Pax	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot stricta Baill.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot subspicata D.J.Rogers & Appan	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot surinamensis D.J.Rogers & Appan	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot tenella Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot tomatophylla Standl.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot tomentosa Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot triloba (Sessé) McVaugh ex Miranda	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot tripartita (Spreng.) Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot triphylla Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot tristis Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot variifolia Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot violacea Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot walkerae Croizat	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot websteri D.J.Rogers & Appan	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot weddelliana Baill.	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot xavantinensis D.J.Rogers & Appan	Accepted		WCSP
Manihot zehntneri Ule	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 264 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Manihot. Of these 107 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 100 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Manihot. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 264 species names for the genus Manihot recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	107	40.5%
◕	Synonym	151	57.2%
◕	Unplaced	5	1.9%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.4%

All names

The status of the 364 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Manihot recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	136	37.4%
◕	Synonym	222	61.0%
◕	Unplaced	5	1.4%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.3%

Of these names,

• 5 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 264 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Manihot, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	107	146	0	0	253	95.8%
	Medium confidence	0	4	0	0	4	1.5%
	Low confidence	0	1	5	1	7	2.7%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Manihot, are as follows: