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Euphorbia bougheyi L.C. Leach [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 5, (2001) Author: S. Carter & L.C. Leach
Names
Euphorbia bougheyi L.C. Leach [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in J. S. African Bot. 30: 9, fig. & photos on pl. V (1964). —Court, Succ. Fl. South. Africa: 27 (1981). Type: Mozambique, Beira, Macúti Beach, fl. vii.1963, Boughey in GHS 12206 (SRGH, holotype; CAH; COI; G; K; LISC; LMU; PRE).
Information
Succulent tree to 7 m high; trunk cylindric, fairly slender, spiny above, with up to 9 angles and a crown of verticillate, spreading branches, curving upwards.Branches 2–5-winged, constricted into variably shaped segments 2.5–5 cm wide; wings very thin, margins prominently to obscurely crenate, usually distinctly wavy, with crenations 10–25 mm apart; ultimate branchlets often 2-winged, produced in whorls.Spine shields extremely narrow, usually separate, sometimes extended above to enclose the flowering eye 3–5 mm above the spine pairs; spines to 7.5 mm long; prickles minute.Leaves rudimentary, ovate-acute, recurved, withered remains usually persistent.Cymes solitary; peduncles and cyme branches very stout, c. 2.5 × 4 mm; bracts c. 4 × 7 mm, broadly ovate, usually split to the base.Cyathia to 4.5 × 10 mm, with broadly funnel-shaped involucres; glands 5–5.5 mm wide, transversely narrowly elliptic, spreading, rugulose, yellow; lobes broadly elliptic, irregularly dentate.Male flowers c. 60: fascicular bracts c. 4 mm long, laciniate; stamens c. 5.5 mm long.Female flower: perianth 3-lobed, lobes 1.5 mm long, sometimes with 1–2 teeth; styles to 3 mm long, free almost to the base, spreading recurved.Capsule 8.5–9.5 × 19–23 mm, deeply lobed, exserted on a stout pedicel c. 7 mm long.Seed c. 3.75 mm in diameter, subglobose.
Habitat
Dense woodland and thickets in low-lying grassland
Range
Known only from swampy coastal areas to the north and south of Beira
Altitude range
0–120 m.
120
0
Distribution
Mozambique GI Vilankulo (Vilanculos) turn-off on Maxixe–Mambone road, fr. 6.x.1963, Leach & Bayliss 11852 (G; K; LISC; LMJ; PRE; SRGH).Mozambique MS Machanga Distr., between Divinhe and Nova Mambone, fr. 2.ix.1961, Leach 11254 (CAH; COI; G; K; LISC; LM; PRE; SRGH).Mozambique Z Maganja da Costa Distr., Floresta de Gobene, 45 km from Olinga (Vila da Maganja), st. 14.ii.1966, Torre & Correia 14612 (LISC).
Notes
Closely related to E. halipedicola and E. nyikae Pax (East Africa), but distinguished by its very thin irregularly shaped branch segments.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 5, (2001) Author: S. Carter & L.C. Leach
Names
Euphorbia bougheyi L.C. Leach [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in J. S. African Bot. 30: 9, fig. & photos on pl. V (1964). —Court, Succ. Fl. South. Africa: 27 (1981). Type: Mozambique, Beira, Macúti Beach, fl. vii.1963, Boughey in GHS 12206 (SRGH, holotype; CAH; COI; G; K; LISC; LMU; PRE).
Information
Succulent tree to 7 m high; trunk cylindric, fairly slender, spiny above, with up to 9 angles and a crown of verticillate, spreading branches, curving upwards.Branches 2–5-winged, constricted into variably shaped segments 2.5–5 cm wide; wings very thin, margins prominently to obscurely crenate, usually distinctly wavy, with crenations 10–25 mm apart; ultimate branchlets often 2-winged, produced in whorls.Spine shields extremely narrow, usually separate, sometimes extended above to enclose the flowering eye 3–5 mm above the spine pairs; spines to 7.5 mm long; prickles minute.Leaves rudimentary, ovate-acute, recurved, withered remains usually persistent.Cymes solitary; peduncles and cyme branches very stout, c. 2.5 × 4 mm; bracts c. 4 × 7 mm, broadly ovate, usually split to the base.Cyathia to 4.5 × 10 mm, with broadly funnel-shaped involucres; glands 5–5.5 mm wide, transversely narrowly elliptic, spreading, rugulose, yellow; lobes broadly elliptic, irregularly dentate.Male flowers c. 60: fascicular bracts c. 4 mm long, laciniate; stamens c. 5.5 mm long.Female flower: perianth 3-lobed, lobes 1.5 mm long, sometimes with 1–2 teeth; styles to 3 mm long, free almost to the base, spreading recurved.Capsule 8.5–9.5 × 19–23 mm, deeply lobed, exserted on a stout pedicel c. 7 mm long.Seed c. 3.75 mm in diameter, subglobose.
Habitat
Dense woodland and thickets in low-lying grassland
Range
Known only from swampy coastal areas to the north and south of Beira
Altitude range
0–120 m.
120
0
Distribution
Mozambique GI Vilankulo (Vilanculos) turn-off on Maxixe–Mambone road, fr. 6.x.1963, Leach & Bayliss 11852 (G; K; LISC; LMJ; PRE; SRGH).Mozambique MS Machanga Distr., between Divinhe and Nova Mambone, fr. 2.ix.1961, Leach 11254 (CAH; COI; G; K; LISC; LM; PRE; SRGH).Mozambique Z Maganja da Costa Distr., Floresta de Gobene, 45 km from Olinga (Vila da Maganja), st. 14.ii.1966, Torre & Correia 14612 (LISC).
Notes
Closely related to E. halipedicola and E. nyikae Pax (East Africa), but distinguished by its very thin irregularly shaped branch segments.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 5, (2001) Author: S. Carter & L.C. Leach
Names
Euphorbia bougheyi L.C. Leach [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in J. S. African Bot. 30: 9, fig. & photos on pl. V (1964). —Court, Succ. Fl. South. Africa: 27 (1981). Type: Mozambique, Beira, Macúti Beach, fl. vii.1963, Boughey in GHS 12206 (SRGH, holotype; CAH; COI; G; K; LISC; LMU; PRE).
Information
Succulent tree to 7 m high; trunk cylindric, fairly slender, spiny above, with up to 9 angles and a crown of verticillate, spreading branches, curving upwards.Branches 2–5-winged, constricted into variably shaped segments 2.5–5 cm wide; wings very thin, margins prominently to obscurely crenate, usually distinctly wavy, with crenations 10–25 mm apart; ultimate branchlets often 2-winged, produced in whorls.Spine shields extremely narrow, usually separate, sometimes extended above to enclose the flowering eye 3–5 mm above the spine pairs; spines to 7.5 mm long; prickles minute.Leaves rudimentary, ovate-acute, recurved, withered remains usually persistent.Cymes solitary; peduncles and cyme branches very stout, c. 2.5 × 4 mm; bracts c. 4 × 7 mm, broadly ovate, usually split to the base.Cyathia to 4.5 × 10 mm, with broadly funnel-shaped involucres; glands 5–5.5 mm wide, transversely narrowly elliptic, spreading, rugulose, yellow; lobes broadly elliptic, irregularly dentate.Male flowers c. 60: fascicular bracts c. 4 mm long, laciniate; stamens c. 5.5 mm long.Female flower: perianth 3-lobed, lobes 1.5 mm long, sometimes with 1–2 teeth; styles to 3 mm long, free almost to the base, spreading recurved.Capsule 8.5–9.5 × 19–23 mm, deeply lobed, exserted on a stout pedicel c. 7 mm long.Seed c. 3.75 mm in diameter, subglobose.
Habitat
Dense woodland and thickets in low-lying grassland
Range
Known only from swampy coastal areas to the north and south of Beira
Altitude range
0–120 m.
120
0
Distribution
Mozambique GI Vilankulo (Vilanculos) turn-off on Maxixe–Mambone road, fr. 6.x.1963, Leach & Bayliss 11852 (G; K; LISC; LMJ; PRE; SRGH).Mozambique MS Machanga Distr., between Divinhe and Nova Mambone, fr. 2.ix.1961, Leach 11254 (CAH; COI; G; K; LISC; LM; PRE; SRGH).Mozambique Z Maganja da Costa Distr., Floresta de Gobene, 45 km from Olinga (Vila da Maganja), st. 14.ii.1966, Torre & Correia 14612 (LISC).
Notes
Closely related to E. halipedicola and E. nyikae Pax (East Africa), but distinguished by its very thin irregularly shaped branch segments.
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