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Euphorbia tridentata

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Identification
Euphorbia tridentata Lam. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ]
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  • Euphorbia tridentata

Flora

Entry for EUPHORBIA tridentata Lam. [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 tridentata Lam. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Encycl. ii. 416;—DC. Pl. Grass. t. 144; Poir. Encycl. Suppl. ii. 607.
EUPHORBIA anacantha Ait. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 136; Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 888; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 220; Bot. Mag. t. 2520; Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 787; Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 86; Berger, Sukk. Euphorb. 107.
Dactylanthes anacantha Haw. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Syn. Pl. Succ. 132.
Medusea tridentata Klotzsch & Garcke [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Abhandl. Akad. Berlin, 1860, 61.
Euphorbium anacanthum squamosum, &c. Isnard [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Act. Paris, 1720, 387, no. 12, and 392, t. 11.
Euphorbium erectum aphyllum, &c. Burm. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Rar. Afr. Pl. 16, t. 7, fig. 2.
Euphorbium africanum caule squamoso, &c. Bradl. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Hist. Succ. Pl. Dec. 5, 12, t. 45.
Information
plant dwarf, succulent, spineless, branching from the base; branches ascending or somewhat spreading, 1–6 in. long, 1/3– 1/2 in. thick, cylindric or slightly tapering upwards, tessellately tuberculate with hexagonal flattish tubercles 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam., having a slightly prominent whitish leaf-scar, glabrous, dull green; leaves sessile, soon deciduous, 2–3 lin. long, 1 1/2–2 lin. broad, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute, dark green, with a reddish minutely toothed margin; peduncles 3–4 at the ends of the branches, about 2 lin. long, bearing a pair of ovate or elliptic bracts and 1 involucre, glabrous; involucre about 1/2– 2/3 in. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely oblong toothed and ciliate inflexed purplish lobes; glands subcontiguous, about 2 1/2 lin. in diam. across the tips, very concave at the basal part, divided into 3–4 spreading finger-like corrugated white processes 1–1 1/2 lin. long; ovary pedicellate, scarcely exserted, with styles 1/4 in. long, united for two-thirds of their length, with entire spreading tips. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Herb. Lamarck!
Notes
Described from Lamarck's type and the figures above quoted.

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