EUPHORBIA griseola 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 griseola Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 375;—See N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 578.
Information
a succulent bush, spiny and leafless; branches less than 5 lin. in diam., elongated, decumbent, 5-angled; angles sinuate-toothed, with continuous horny grey margins; teeth about 4–5 lin. apart; spines 3–4 lin. long, in pairs, with a pair of minute prickles at their base, grey, with black tips; involucre not described; capsule about 1 lin. long and twice as much in diam., deeply 3-lobed, as seen from above, with keeled lobes. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Bechuanaland; Lobatsi, Marloth, 3413.
Notes
I have not seen this plant. Dr. Marloth informs me that he did not retain a specimen of it.
EUPHORBIA griseola Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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