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Euphorbia agowensis

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Name

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

Entry for EUPHORBIA agowensis 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 agowensis Boiss. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1862).
Information
Annual or short-lived perennial herb 10–75 cm high; young growth pubescent with short crisped hairs, becoming glabrous. Leaves ovate to linear-lanceolate, 2–8 x 0.6–4 cm, margin indistinctly toothed but with 1–2 pairs of large gland-tipped teeth at the base, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs along the prominent midrib on the lower surface; lamina tapering into a winged petiole to 5 mm long. Cymes in 3-branched umbels, with primary rays 1–8 cm long; bracts sessile, often reflexed. Cyathia 1.8 mm in diam., puberulous; glands 4, 1 mm broad, quite separate, brown. Styles 1.6 mm long, erect with spreading apices bifid for 1/3. Capsule exserted on a recurved pedicel 4 mm long, oblong-trigonous, 3.5 x 3 mm, pubescent with short appressed hairs. Seeds oblong, compressed, 2.8 x 1.6 mm, wrinkled in 4 longitudinal rows of large tubercles on each side, greyish, with a yellow cap-like caruncle 1.2 mm wide.

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