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Euphorbia gossweileri
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Name
Identification
Euphorbia gossweileri Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Euphorbia subfalcata Hiern [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Euphorbia trichadenia Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
- Euphorbia trichadenia
- Euphorbia subfalcata
- Euphorbia gossweileri
Flora
Entry for EUPHORBIA trichadenia Pax [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 trichadenia Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 125;—N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 523.
EUPHORBIA benguelensis Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 741.
EUPHORBIA subfalcata Hiern [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 948.
EUPHORBIA Gossweileri Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 88.
Information
a perennial herb; rootstock a tuber with an elongated neck, producing annual herbaceous stems 1–4 in. high, branching from the base, puberulous or glabrous; leaves opposite at the flowering nodes and forkings of the stem, alternate elsewhere, sessile, thinly coriaceous or perhaps slightly fleshy, 3/4–2 1/2 in. long, 1/2–2 1/2 lin. broad, linear, acute, usually slightly curved, often longitudinally folded, glabrous on both sides, sometimes ciliate on the narrow cartilaginous margins; lowest leaves and sometimes those under the involucres (bracts) much smaller, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate or scale-like; stipules none; involucres solitary in the forkings of the stems or sometimes 3–5 in small terminal cymes, shortly pedunculate, 4–5 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous or minutely puberulous outside, with 5 glands and 5 transversely rectangular or subquadrate fringed lobes; glands 1 1/3–1 2/3 lin. long, 1 1/2–2 lin. broad, palmate or somewhat fan-shaped, deeply divided into 3–7 (or more?) linear or filiform segments 3/4–1 1/2 lin. long, once or twice forked at the apex, flat or channelled but not corrugated on their upper surface, with the undivided basal part concave or 2-lipped from the inner margin being inflexed; capsule 5–5 1/2 lin. in diam., glabrous, exserted on an erect pedicel equalling or exceeding the involucre; styles united into a column 1–1 3/4 lin. long, with revolute arms 3/4–1 1/4 lin. long, minutely 2-lobed at the tips; seeds 1 1/2–2 lin. in diam., globose, acutely pointed at one end, thinly and minutely subrugulose with what appear to be irregular agglutinated masses of minute hairs. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; tops of mountains at Rietfontein in Zoutpansberg district, Miss Leendertz, 872! Warmbath, Burtt-Davy, 5337! Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock! between Komati River Drift and Crocodile River, Bolus, 9766! and without precise locality, Burke! Zeyher, 1539 partly!
Notes
Growths springing up after the vegetation has been burnt are very short and totally unlike those normally developed.