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Euphorbia verdickii

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Name

Identification
Euphorbia verdickii Dewild. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Euphorbia oatesii Rolfe [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Euphorbia verdickii
  • Euphorbia oatesii

Flora

Entry for EUPHORBIA Verdickii De Wild. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
EUPHORBIA Verdickii De Wild. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Études Fl. Baset Moyen-Congo, i. 280.
Information
A perennial herb about 6 in. high. Stem with spreading straight branches, more or less fleshy, shortly and densely pubescent. Leaves 1/3–1 in. long, 3/4–1 1/2 lin. broad, linear or oblong-linear, acute, rounded at the base, with revolute ciliate margins, glabrous above, with some hairs on the under surface, especially on the prominent midrib; petiole 1/2 lin. long. Involucres terminal, about 3 1/2 lin. in diam., on peduncles up to 1 in. long, velvety, with 5 glands forming rounded glabrescent lobes, tuberculate on their upper surface, wavy at the margins. Ovary shortly pedicellate, tomentose; styles bifid. Capsule about 2 1/2 lin. in diam., tomentose. Seeds smooth, greyish-brown.
Distribution
Congo South Central Katanga district, Lukafu, Verdick, 309.
Notes
This may prove to be identical with E. Oatesii, Rolfe.

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