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Euphorbia brachiata

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Identification
Euphorbia brachiata (Klotzsch & Garcke) Boiss. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Isotype of Arthrothamnus brachiatus Klotzsch & Garcke [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Arthrothamnus brachiatus
  • Euphorbia brachiata
  • Euphorbia perpera

Flora

Entry for EUPHORBIA brachiata E. Meyer [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
EUPHORBIA brachiata E. Meyer [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 184, ex Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 74 partly
Information
a dwarf much-branched shrublet, leafless and spineless; branches and branchlets opposite or forking, jointed and more or less constricted at their origin, diverging from each other at an angle of 100°–180°, fleshy when young, glabrous, rusty-brown when dried; leaves rudimentary, deciduous, opposite, sessile, abruptly recurved, 1 lin. long, deltoid, acute, angular on each side at the base, concave-channelled down the face, rigid when dried, glabrous; cymes terminal, 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam., consisting of two diverging branchlets about 1 lin. long, each bearing 3 sessile involucres; bracts much shorter than the involucres, about 1/2 lin. long and 3/4 lin. broad when flattened, broadly deltoid, apiculate, concave, glabrous; involucres sessile, 1 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 4–5 glands and 5 oblong fringed lobes; glands about 2/5 lin. in their greater diam., transversely oblong, entire; ovary and capsule not seen. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Van Rhynsdorp Div.; hills near Ebenezer, Drège, 2948!
Notes
Under the name of E. brachiata, Drège distributed two distinct but allied species, both of which seem to be included in Boissier's description. I have taken as the type, E. brachiata, E. Meyer, letter “a,” which in E. Meyer's Herbarium at Lübeck bears the number 2948, as quoted by Boissier and is named “ E. brachiata ” in E. Meyer's handwriting, none of the specimens seen of this bear any ovary or capsule upon them. Under letter “b” an entirely different species was distributed, described below as E. perpera, N. E. Br., which was collected over 200 miles further north, near the Orange River and bears female flowers and fruit, and it is from this species that I believe Boissier to have described the styles and fruit under E. brachiata, no specimen of it, however, exists in Meyer's Herbarium at Lübeck. The plant figured by Burmann, Pl. Afr. Rar. t. 5, also quoted by Boissier under E. brachiata, belongs to a totally different species (E. arceuthobioides, Boiss.), which grows in a different region.

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