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Euphorbia granulata

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Name

Identification
Euphorbia forskalii J.Gay [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Euphorbia granulata Forssk. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Euphorbia aegyptiaca
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  • Euphorbia forskalii
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  • Euphorbia scordifolia
  • Euphorbia granulata
  • Euphorbia chamaesyce

Flora

Entry for EUPHORBIA granulata Forssk. [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 granulata Forssk. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1775).
Information
Pubescent annual herb, with prostrate branches to 20 cm long, sometimes woody towards the base. Leaves subsessile, ovate, 4–9 x 2–4 mm, margin entire; stipules linear, 0.5–1 mm long. Cyathia solitary, subsessile, clustered on very short leafy axillary branches, scarcely 1 mm in diam.; glands minute, red, with minute pink appendages. Styles minute, bifid almost to the base. Capsule exserted on a recurved pedicel 1.5 mm long, acutely 3-lobed, 1.3 x 1.3 mm, pubescent. Seeds oblong-conical, 4-angled, 0.9 x 0.6 mm, transversely shallowly wrinkled, pinkish grey.

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