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Pachyrhizus erosus
Pachyrhizus erosus
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) Urban
Common Names
- Yam Bean
- Jicama (NIcaragua)
- Sincamas
- Sinkamas
- Fan-ko
- Sar-gott
- Dolique Bulbeus
- Xicamatl
- Xicama
- Xiquima
- Xicamoxmitl
- Yaka
- Wayaka
- Chopsui Potato
- Sankaalu (India)
- Sinkamas (Philippines)
- Dolique Bulbeux (French)
- Man Phau (Laos)
- Krasang (Cambodian)
- Cay Cu Dau (Vietnam)
- Dou shu (Pinyin)
- Bengkuang (Singapore)
- Sengkuang (Singapore)
- Chinese potato
- Mah-pra (Myanmar)
- Mrauk-u (Myanmar)
- Pe-sein-sa (Myanmar)
- Capamo (Waorani)
- Auyey
- Manioc Cochon
- Patate Chinoise
- Patte la Couete
- Pois Cochon
- Pois Maldioc
- Pois Manioc
- Sankalu
- Turnip Tree
- Coronillo or Higo (Costa Rica)
Geographical Habitats
- Argentina
- Belize
- Maranhão
- Minas Gerais
- Tocantins - Brazil
- Cuba
- Hispaniola
- Jamaica
- Leeward islands
- Puerto Rico
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- El Salvador
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Trinidad
- Virgin Islands - USA
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Forest margins
- volcanic crater
- shrubland
- montane forest
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Vigorous reddish pubescent or glabrous twining or trailing herb or shrub, rhizomatous tubers. Trifoliolate pubescent or glabrous leaves, toothed leaflets to 185mm x 200mm, terminal leaflet usually 3-7 lobed. Erect axillary or termianl pseudo-racemes to 700mm long in groups of 2-5 flowers, setaceous bracts & bracteoles, 25mm deep violet, blue to white flowers with a green patch in centre of standard, standard, wings & keel to 15mm long, silky calyx to 8mm, reddish corolla to 25mm or more Fruit a hairy or glabrescent blackish-brown pod to 225mm long x 18mm somewhat articulated.,
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Bailey 1976
- Rubatzky 1997
- Smith 1998
- FOH
- Mobot
- FOC
- Neotrop
- FB
- NYBG
- FI
- JDH
- APDC
- FOSi
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- USNH
- Botanicus
- FOTA
- GBS
- HUBM
- SAFIO
- PCCA