Entry for Euphorbia cyathophora Murray [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 5, (2001) Author: S. Carter & L.C. Leach
Names
Euphorbia cyathophoraMurray [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Comment. Soc. Regiae Sci. Gött. 7: 81, t. 1 (1786). See species 23.
Information
An annual herb, introduced from Central America, grown for its ornamental bracts, which are markedly panduriform with a bright orange-red basal blotch. Its cyathia have a single funnel-shaped gland.