Compilation
Euphorbia breviarticulata

Shrub 1.5–5 m high; branches erect and spreading, loosely rebranched, fleshy, deeply 3-winged, deeply and regularly constricted into segments to 8 cm long and to 12 cm wide, conspicuously variegated with streaks of yellow-green; angles sinuately toothed with teeth to 4 cm apart at the base of each segment, closer above and towards the constrictions. Spine-shields joined to form a continuous horny margin along the angles 2–6 mm wide, enlarged at the base of the spines; spine-pairs extremely robust, the longest 4–8 cm long, much shorter at the constrictions; prickles 0.5–2 mm long; flowering eye 5–20 mm above the base of the spines, flanked by 1–2 pairs of secondary spines 0.5–5 mm long. Leaves fleshy, deltoid, 1.5 mm long, quickly deciduous. Cymes (1–)3–7 crowded together, 1-forked with stout peduncles 8–12 mm long and shorter cyme-branches. Bracts rounded, 2.5–3.5 mm. Cyathia 9 mm in diam.; glands 4 mm broad, just touching, golden yellow. Perianth of the female flower obvious, 3-lobed, with lobes 2 mm long; styles 3 mm long. Capsule just exserted on a pedicel 3–5 mm long, deeply 3-lobed with truncate base and apex, 9 x 18 mm, green then reddening. Seeds globose, 3.5 mm in diam., pale grey, speckled, smooth.