taxonID	type	description	language	source
03C887F2FFD1DD5FB073F999D6B589F4.taxon	distribution	Distribution ― The species is native in Mexico and Central America, but the cultivar has a much wider distribution (Howard 1989). In Malesia only known from four Philippine collections, two cultivated in a garden, one in Manila (Luzon, garden of the collector, M. L. Steiner 1085 = PNH (Steiner) 36973) and in Pasay City (Luzon; PNH (C. G. Manuel) 18631), two collected outside Cebu City (Cebu; D. Bicknell 1546, 1649). Habitat & Ecology ― Outskirts of Cebu City, along stream. Altitude: 200 – 250 m. Flowering: June, July. Vernacular name ― Chaya (Mexican). Uses ― Young leaves and shoots are eaten as a vegetable and seemingly rich in vitamin C (Radcliffe-Smith 2001, in note, as C. chayamansa). This cultivar is edible because the leaf surface is quite large and it hardly has stinging, bristly hairs, which are generally very apparent in most other species in this genus. Notes ― 1. De Sessé y Lacasta (1794) published Jatropha quinqueloba and J. palmata (non Willdenow 1805; J. palmata Willd. is a synonym of C. aconitifolius subsp. aconitifolius) in a footnote of a printed speech by Prof. Vincente de Cervantes in the supplement of a Mexican literary newspaper. The journal is obscure, but the descriptions though brief are valid. De Sessé’s J. palmata is older than Willdenow’s name, making the latter illegitimate. A specimen in Madrid, ‘ Herbario de Sessé y Mociño 4230 ’ (MA 602171), shows that J. palmata is a Manihot and the name is not a synonym of Cnidoscolus aconitifolius as suggested by ThePlantList. org (last checked March 2017. Jatropha quinqueloba Sessé (based on ‘ Herbario de Sessé y Mociño 4227 ’, MA 602180), and closely resembling the name J. quinquelobata Mill., is identified as J. tubulosa Müll. Arg. (anonymous identification), a synonym of C. tubulosus (Müll. Arg.) I. M. Johnst. Both Jatropha names do not appear in the much later published Flora Mexicana by Sessé & Mociño (1892 – 1898, of which the second edition was partly even printed earlier; not in references!). 2. The figure shows the wild type of C. aconitifolius, which is fertile and of which fruits are known. The cultivar has broader, leafier leaf lobes that largely overlap.	en	van Welzen, P. C., Fernández-Casas, F. J. (2017): Cnidoscolus (Euphorbiaceae) escaped in Malesia? Blumea 62 (1): 84-86, DOI: 10.3767/000651917X695476, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/000651917x695476
