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Euphorbia inaequilatera

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Name

Identification
Euphorbia inaequilatera Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ]
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Entry for EUPHORBIA inaequilatera Sond. [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 inaequilatera Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1850).
Information
Annual herb, with prostrate branches to 30 cm long, longitudinally ridged, less noticeably when the plant is small and stunted. Leaves subsessile, ovate, 5–14 x 2–6 mm, margin serrate, at least around the apex; stipules 1–1.5 mm long, deeply divided with 3–5 linear points. Cyathia solitary, subessile, terminal and pseudoaxillary on short leafy branches, 1 mm in diam.; glands minute, red, with small lobed pink or white appendages. Styles minute, spreading, bifid almost to the base. Capsule exserted on a recurved pedicel 2 mm long, acutely 3-lobed, 1.5 x 1.75 mm. Seeds oblong-conical, 1.25 x 0.75 mm, with shallow transverse wrinkles, greyish brown.

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