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Euphorbia hastisquama

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Identification
Euphorbia hastisquama N.E.Br. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Euphorbia caterviflora unrecorded [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Zimmermann,N.,
Related name
  • Euphorbia hastisquama
  • Euphorbia caterviflora

Flora

Entry for EUPHORBIA hastisquama N. E. Br. [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 hastisquama N. E. Br. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Information
apparently about 3–6 in. high, with numerous crowded trichotomously divided branches, glabrous; branches opposite, 1/2–1 lin. thick (dried), terete; leaves rudimentary, scale-like, opposite, sessile, 1/2 lin. long, deltoid-hastate, with the apex and basal lobes acute, recurved, blackish-brown, glabrous; involucre solitary at the apex of the terminal branchlets, sessile, about 1 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous outside, pubescent within, with 5 glands in the male (and perhaps 4 in the female) and 5 very small oblong or subquadrate fringed lobes; glands in the male unequal (always?), 1/3– 1/2 lin. in their greater diam., transversely elliptic-oblong or subreniform, convex; female or hermaphrodite involucre not seen. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; fields by the Zwartkops River, 40 ft., Zeyher, 1099! 3854! Ecklon & Zeyher, Euphorb. 25!
Notes
All the specimens seen are very imperfect and damaged by insects.

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