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Euphorbia colubrina

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Identification
Isotype of Euphorbia colubrina P.R.O.Bally & S.Carter [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bally & Carter S,
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Entry for EUPHORBIA colubrina Bally & 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 colubrina Bally & S. Carter [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1982).
Information
Dwarf succulent perennial, much-branched to form loosely tangled masses 15–25 cm high and 25–50 cm in diam. Branches spreading, rebranching irregularly, c. 8 mm thick, obtusely 4-angled, glossy green or yellowish with a darker stripe along the angles; angles very shallowly toothed, with teeth 5–10 mm apart. Spine-shields separate, oblong, 1–2 x 3–6 mm, dark brown; spines slender, irregular in length, 2–18 mm long; prickles absent or rudimentary. Flowering eyes immediately above the spine-shields; cymes 1-forked, with peduncle and cyme-branches 1–2 mm long. Cyathia 2.5 mm in diam.; glands 1.25 mm broad, contiguous, brownish yellow. Styles 1 mm long. Capsule exserted on a recurved pedicel c. 4 mm long, deeply 3-lobed, 2 x 2.5 mm, buff with purple-marked sutures. Seeds ovoid, 1.25 x 1 mm, red-brown, minutely and densely tuberculate.
Range
S1 NE Kenya and adjoining areas of Ethiopia.
Altitude range
200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming & Deshmukh JESS 379.

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