Herbarium JCB

Manihot glaziovii Mueller

Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Euphorbiaceae
Species : Manihot glaziovii
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Manihot carthaginensis subsp. glaziovii (Müll.Arg.) Allem
Common name : Ceara Rubber Tree
Collection Nos : R.R.Rao 1162, HFP 201
Key identification features : A small deciduous tree that grows upto 9-10 m tall. Leaves are simple, peltate and lobed, 8-14 cm long and 4-8 cm broad, glaucous beneath. Flowers appear in clusters at branch ends, inconspicuous (about 1.5 cm across), both male and female flowers appearing on the same tree. Fruit is indistinctly 3-lobed and splits into three one-seeded portions when mature. Bark is grey, with clusters of pink coloured lenticels running horizontal.
Habit : Shrub
Native : Central America
Comments : The latex is a source of poor quality rubber.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Mysore, Tumkur, Udupi
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi