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EUPHORBIA platycephala Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
EUPHORBIA platycephala Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 122.
EUPHORBIA uhehensis Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 420.
Information
Rootstock an elongated fleshy tuber 1 1/4 in. (or more?) thick, producing 1 or more annual erect stems 3–4 in. high and 1/8– 1/4 in. thick at the base, with an umbel of 3–4 rays at the apex, glabrous. Leaves sessile, alternate, whorled at the base of the umbel, 1 3/4–3 in. long, 1/3– 2/3 in. broad, narrowly lanceolate to cuneate-oblanceolate, acute, entire, glabrous on both sides. Rays of the umbel 1–2 in. long, simple or once forked, glabrous. Bracts 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, 2/3–1 2/3 in. broad, sessile, deltoid-ovate, truncate or rounded at the base, tapering to an acute apex, glabrous. Involucres solitary, sessile or on peduncles 1–1 3/4 lin. long, 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam. and 1/6 in. deep, broadly cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely subrectangular emarginate or subentire lobes 3/4–1 lin. long and 1–1 3/4 lin. broad; glands distant, 3/4–1 1/4 lin. in their greater diam., transversely elliptic, with the base excavated or very obliquely and shallowly funnel-shaped, entire. Ovary glabrous, wholly or partly included; styles united below, with the free part about 1 lin. long, slender, slightly thickened at the apex. Fruit and seeds not seen.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kageyi on Lake Victoria, Fischer, 516! Uheche, Goetze, 525!French Guinea Upper Guinea Paroisse, 201!
Notes
I can find no specific distinction between the type specimens of E. platycephala and E. uhehensis .
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
EUPHORBIA platycephala Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 122.
EUPHORBIA uhehensis Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 420.
Information
Rootstock an elongated fleshy tuber 1 1/4 in. (or more?) thick, producing 1 or more annual erect stems 3–4 in. high and 1/8– 1/4 in. thick at the base, with an umbel of 3–4 rays at the apex, glabrous. Leaves sessile, alternate, whorled at the base of the umbel, 1 3/4–3 in. long, 1/3– 2/3 in. broad, narrowly lanceolate to cuneate-oblanceolate, acute, entire, glabrous on both sides. Rays of the umbel 1–2 in. long, simple or once forked, glabrous. Bracts 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, 2/3–1 2/3 in. broad, sessile, deltoid-ovate, truncate or rounded at the base, tapering to an acute apex, glabrous. Involucres solitary, sessile or on peduncles 1–1 3/4 lin. long, 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam. and 1/6 in. deep, broadly cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely subrectangular emarginate or subentire lobes 3/4–1 lin. long and 1–1 3/4 lin. broad; glands distant, 3/4–1 1/4 lin. in their greater diam., transversely elliptic, with the base excavated or very obliquely and shallowly funnel-shaped, entire. Ovary glabrous, wholly or partly included; styles united below, with the free part about 1 lin. long, slender, slightly thickened at the apex. Fruit and seeds not seen.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kageyi on Lake Victoria, Fischer, 516! Uheche, Goetze, 525!French Guinea Upper Guinea Paroisse, 201!
Notes
I can find no specific distinction between the type specimens of E. platycephala and E. uhehensis .
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
EUPHORBIA platycephala Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 122.
EUPHORBIA uhehensis Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 420.
Information
Rootstock an elongated fleshy tuber 1 1/4 in. (or more?) thick, producing 1 or more annual erect stems 3–4 in. high and 1/8– 1/4 in. thick at the base, with an umbel of 3–4 rays at the apex, glabrous. Leaves sessile, alternate, whorled at the base of the umbel, 1 3/4–3 in. long, 1/3– 2/3 in. broad, narrowly lanceolate to cuneate-oblanceolate, acute, entire, glabrous on both sides. Rays of the umbel 1–2 in. long, simple or once forked, glabrous. Bracts 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, 2/3–1 2/3 in. broad, sessile, deltoid-ovate, truncate or rounded at the base, tapering to an acute apex, glabrous. Involucres solitary, sessile or on peduncles 1–1 3/4 lin. long, 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam. and 1/6 in. deep, broadly cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely subrectangular emarginate or subentire lobes 3/4–1 lin. long and 1–1 3/4 lin. broad; glands distant, 3/4–1 1/4 lin. in their greater diam., transversely elliptic, with the base excavated or very obliquely and shallowly funnel-shaped, entire. Ovary glabrous, wholly or partly included; styles united below, with the free part about 1 lin. long, slender, slightly thickened at the apex. Fruit and seeds not seen.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kageyi on Lake Victoria, Fischer, 516! Uheche, Goetze, 525!French Guinea Upper Guinea Paroisse, 201!
Notes
I can find no specific distinction between the type specimens of E. platycephala and E. uhehensis .
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