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Euphorbia abyssinica

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Identification
Euphorbia controversa N.E.Br. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Euphorbia abyssinica J.F.Gmel. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for EUPHORBIA abyssinica Gmel. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Carter (Euphorbia, Monadenium), M. G. Gilbert (Acalypha, Andrachne, Antidesma, Bridelia, Caperonia, Cephalocroton, Chrozophora, Clutia, Dalechampia, Flueggea, Givotia, Manihot, Meineckia, Micrococca, Oldfieldia, Phyllanthus, Ricinus, Suregada, Tragia), and M. Thulin (Croton, Drypetes, Erythrococca, Excoecaria, Jatropha, Spirostachys and Thecacoris) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
EUPHORBIA abyssinica Gmel. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1791).
EUPHORBIA grandis Lem. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1857).
EUPHORBIA hararensis Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1907).
Information
Tree to 9 m high, with a short stout trunk and dense rounded crown of ascending branches; terminal branchlets sharply (3–)4(–5)-angled, regularly constricted into segments 5–15 cm long, 4–6 cm wide; angles straight to shallowly sinuately toothed, with teeth 1 cm apart. Spine-shields very obtusely triangular, to 10 x 7 mm including the flowering eye above; spine-pairs stout, to 5 mm long, often vestigial or apparently absent; prickles obsolete or vestigial on young growth; spines and spine-shields quickly becoming corky, to form a broad ridge along the angles. Leaves oblanceolate on seedlings and young growth, to 25 x 8 mm, deltoid on older growth, c. 5 x 5 mm, quickly deciduous. Cymes 1–5 crowded together, 1-forked, on stout peduncles 5 mm long; bracts rounded, c. 4 x 6 mm. Cyathia 12 mm in diam.; glands 4.5 mm broad, golden yellow. Perianth of the female flower obvious, irregularly divided into 3 deeply filiform-toothed lobes to 1 cm long; styles 4 mm long, with thickened shortly bifid apices. Capsule shortly exserted on a stout pedicel 5 mm long, subglobose to very obtusely 3-lobed, c. 15 x 20 mm, fleshy, with thick walls, white becoming bright red, then hardening before dehiscence to become deeply 3-lobed. Seeds subglobose, slightly compressed, 4.5 x 3.7 mm, smooth, grey.
Range
N1, 2 locally common in the Red Sea Hills, Sudan, Eritrea and N Ethiopia.
Altitude range
840–1460 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 9946, 11460.
Notes
Hasadin (Som.).

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