Edit History
EUPHORBIA griseola Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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]](/fsi/img/misc/plants/static_thumbs/flora_capensis_icon96.jpg)
╳
We're sorry. You don't appear to have permission to access the item.
Full access to these resources typically requires affiliation with a partnering organization. (For example, researchers are often granted access through their affiliation with a university library.)
If you have an institutional affiliation that provides you access, try logging in via your institution
Have access with an individual account? Login here
If you would like to learn more about access options or believe you received this message in error, please contact us.