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Euphorbia acalyphoides

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Name

Identification
Euphorbia acalyphoides Boiss. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Amal Y. Aldhebiani, Euphorbia thelesperma Hochst. ex Boiss. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for EUPHORBIA acalyphoides Boiss. [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 acalyphoides Boiss. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1862).
Information
Annual herb 15–60 cm high, with spreading branches, main-stem somewhat fleshy, the whole plant pilose with spreading hairs including the flowering parts. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2–5 x 0.5–1.5 cm; petiole 5–15 mm long; stipules glandular, minute. Cymes axillary, 1–2-forked, with often only 1 ray developing 1–5 mm long; bracts similar to the leaves but very small, subsessile. Cyathia 3 mm in diam.; glands 4, 1–1.5 mm broad, red, pubescent on the outer (lower) surface and especially around the margins. Styles pubescent, 1–2 mm long, joined at the base, with shortly bifid apices. Capsule scarcely exserted on a pedicel 1.75–2 mm long, obtusely 3-lobed, 3.5 x 4.5 mm, with crisped hairs. Seeds conical, with acute apex and 2 shallow horizontal constrictions, 2.5 x 2 mm, black to blackish brown.

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