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Euphorbia griseola Pax [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 griseola Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 34: 375 (1904). —N.E. Brown in F.T.A. 6, 1: 578 (1912); in F.C. 5, 2: 364 (1915). —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal: 296 (1932). —White, Dyer & Sloane, Succ. Euphorb. 2: 774 (1941). —Goodier & Phipps in Kirkia 1: 58 (1961). —Leach in J. S. African Bot. 33: 253 (1967). —Court, Succ. Fl. South. Africa: 14, 26 & 27 (1981). —Hargreaves, Succ. Spurges Malawi: 32 (1987); Succ. Botswana: 8 (1990). Type: Botswana, Lobatse, Marloth 3413 (B†, holotype); 3 km north of Lobatse, fl. 16.i.1960, Leach & Noel 121 (SRGH, neotype selected by Leach 1967; BR; G; K; LISC; PRE).
Information
Spiny succulent shrub to 1 m high, densely branched from the base, or tree-like to 3.5 m high with a central stem.Branches rebranching above, 1–1.5 cm in diameter, 4–6-angled, not segmented to ± distinctly segmented with segments parallel-sided, often variegated between the angles; angles acute, sinuate, with tubercles 8–15 mm apart along the margins.Spine shields joined to form a horny margin along the angles, or spine shields separate; spines 5–7.5 mm long, slender; prickles 0.5–2 mm long.Leaves to 20 × 6 mm, ovate, deciduous.Cymes solitary, simple, subsessile; bracts 1.5 × 1.5 mm, scale-like.Cyathia 3 × 3.5–4 mm, with funnel-shaped involucres; glands 1.5–2 mm wide, transversely oblong, touching, yellow; lobes 1 × 1 mm, rounded, fimbriate.Male flowers: bracteoles 2.5 mm long, laciniate; stamens c. 3.5 mm long.Female flower: styles to 2 mm long, free almost to the base, apices spreading, bifid.Capsule obtusely angled, 5 mm in diameter, exserted on a recurved pedicel to 7 mm long.Seeds 2–2.5 mm in diameter, subglobose.
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 griseola Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 34: 375 (1904). —N.E. Brown in F.T.A. 6, 1: 578 (1912); in F.C. 5, 2: 364 (1915). —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal: 296 (1932). —White, Dyer & Sloane, Succ. Euphorb. 2: 774 (1941). —Goodier & Phipps in Kirkia 1: 58 (1961). —Leach in J. S. African Bot. 33: 253 (1967). —Court, Succ. Fl. South. Africa: 14, 26 & 27 (1981). —Hargreaves, Succ. Spurges Malawi: 32 (1987); Succ. Botswana: 8 (1990). Type: Botswana, Lobatse, Marloth 3413 (B†, holotype); 3 km north of Lobatse, fl. 16.i.1960, Leach & Noel 121 (SRGH, neotype selected by Leach 1967; BR; G; K; LISC; PRE).
Information
Spiny succulent shrub to 1 m high, densely branched from the base, or tree-like to 3.5 m high with a central stem.Branches rebranching above, 1–1.5 cm in diameter, 4–6-angled, not segmented to ± distinctly segmented with segments parallel-sided, often variegated between the angles; angles acute, sinuate, with tubercles 8–15 mm apart along the margins.Spine shields joined to form a horny margin along the angles, or spine shields separate; spines 5–7.5 mm long, slender; prickles 0.5–2 mm long.Leaves to 20 × 6 mm, ovate, deciduous.Cymes solitary, simple, subsessile; bracts 1.5 × 1.5 mm, scale-like.Cyathia 3 × 3.5–4 mm, with funnel-shaped involucres; glands 1.5–2 mm wide, transversely oblong, touching, yellow; lobes 1 × 1 mm, rounded, fimbriate.Male flowers: bracteoles 2.5 mm long, laciniate; stamens c. 3.5 mm long.Female flower: styles to 2 mm long, free almost to the base, apices spreading, bifid.Capsule obtusely angled, 5 mm in diameter, exserted on a recurved pedicel to 7 mm long.Seeds 2–2.5 mm in diameter, subglobose.
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 griseola Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 34: 375 (1904). —N.E. Brown in F.T.A. 6, 1: 578 (1912); in F.C. 5, 2: 364 (1915). —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal: 296 (1932). —White, Dyer & Sloane, Succ. Euphorb. 2: 774 (1941). —Goodier & Phipps in Kirkia 1: 58 (1961). —Leach in J. S. African Bot. 33: 253 (1967). —Court, Succ. Fl. South. Africa: 14, 26 & 27 (1981). —Hargreaves, Succ. Spurges Malawi: 32 (1987); Succ. Botswana: 8 (1990). Type: Botswana, Lobatse, Marloth 3413 (B†, holotype); 3 km north of Lobatse, fl. 16.i.1960, Leach & Noel 121 (SRGH, neotype selected by Leach 1967; BR; G; K; LISC; PRE).
Information
Spiny succulent shrub to 1 m high, densely branched from the base, or tree-like to 3.5 m high with a central stem.Branches rebranching above, 1–1.5 cm in diameter, 4–6-angled, not segmented to ± distinctly segmented with segments parallel-sided, often variegated between the angles; angles acute, sinuate, with tubercles 8–15 mm apart along the margins.Spine shields joined to form a horny margin along the angles, or spine shields separate; spines 5–7.5 mm long, slender; prickles 0.5–2 mm long.Leaves to 20 × 6 mm, ovate, deciduous.Cymes solitary, simple, subsessile; bracts 1.5 × 1.5 mm, scale-like.Cyathia 3 × 3.5–4 mm, with funnel-shaped involucres; glands 1.5–2 mm wide, transversely oblong, touching, yellow; lobes 1 × 1 mm, rounded, fimbriate.Male flowers: bracteoles 2.5 mm long, laciniate; stamens c. 3.5 mm long.Female flower: styles to 2 mm long, free almost to the base, apices spreading, bifid.Capsule obtusely angled, 5 mm in diameter, exserted on a recurved pedicel to 7 mm long.Seeds 2–2.5 mm in diameter, subglobose.
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