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Euphorbia ballyi

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Name

Identification
Euphorbia ballyi S.Carter [family EUPHORBIACEAE ]
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Entry for EUPHORBIA ballyi S. Carter [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 ballyi S. Carter [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1963);. type: N2, few km N of “Erigavo”, Bally 10298 (K holo., G iso.).
Information
Compact shrub to 1.5 m high branching from the base, sparsely rebranching above. Branches 4–6-angled, deeply winged, regularly constricted into segments 3–4 cm long, 4–7 cm wide; angles sinuately toothed, with teeth to 1.5 cm apart at the base of the segments, closer above. Spine-shields joined to form a continuous horny margin 3–5 mm wide along the angles; spine-pairs robust, to 2.5 cm long, usually less especially towards the constrictions; prickles minute but obvious; flowering eye c. 5 mm above the base of the spines, flanked by a pair of secondary spines to 2.5 mm long. Cymes solitary, 1-forked with cyathia arranged vertically, on a stout peduncle 3–7 mm long, cyme-branches shorter. Cyathia c. 10 mm in diam.; glands c. 5 mm broad, touching, golden yellow. Perianth of the female flower obvious, 3-lobed, with lobes 2 mm long, toothed; styles 5 mm long. Capsule sessile, obtusely 3-lobed with truncate base and apex, 7 x 11 mm, blackish purple. Seeds ovoid, 3.5 x 3 mm, smooth, buff, finely speckled.
Range
N2, 3 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
1340–2000 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 10328; Collenette 341; Gillett & Watson 23490.
Notes
Dibu, divo (Som.). Unfortunately, the illustration accompanying the type description in Fl. Pl. Afr. 36, t. 1408 (1963) is not of E. ballyi, but of the related, newly described dwarf species below, E. leontopoda.

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