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Euphorbia griseola subsp. griseola [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 subsp. griseola [family EUPHORBIACEAE] Euphorbia heterochroma [family EUPHORBIACEAE], sensu White, Dyer & Sloane, Succ. Euphorb. 2: 780 (1941) pro parte as to distrib. in Rhodesia and as to fig. 873. —sensu Wild, Dict. Pl. Names: 83 (1952). Euphorbia ledienii [family EUPHORBIACEAE], sensu Suessenguth in Suessenguth & Merxmüller, [Contrib. Fl. Marandellas Distr.] Proc. & Trans. Rhod. Sci. Ass. 43: 84 (1951).
Information
Shrubs usually less than 1 m high; branches 4–6-angled, occasionally slightly and distantly constricted.Spine shields forming a continuous horny margin along the angles, to 1.5 mm wide, rarely separate.
Habitat
Among lightly wooded, granite rocks
Altitude range
850–1700 m. 1700 850
Distribution
Zimbabwe S near Great Zimbabwe Ruins, fr. 12.i.1961, Leach 10711 (BM; BR; G; K; LISC; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Mts., Chikukwa’s Kraal, fl. 14.xi.1967, Mavi 624 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Makoni Distr., 8 km southeast of Nyazura (Inyazura), fl. 24.ix.1965, Leach & Müller 13138 (BM; BR; K; PRE; SRGH; ZSS).Zimbabwe W Matobo Distr., Farm Besna Kobila, fl. x.1957, Miller 4574 (K; PRE; SRGH).Botswana SE Mokolodi Hill, fl. 5.vi.1979, O.J. Hansen 3228 (K).Mozambique MS The Corner, st. 20.xii.1957, Phipps 841 (SRGH).Malawi S near Ntaja, fl. 10.viii. 1960, Leach 10419 (K; LISC; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe N Murehwa Distr., 8 km north of Murehwa (Mrewa), fr. 23.vii.1959, Leach 9235 (K; PRE; SRGH; ZSS).Zambia S Livingstone Distr., Victoria Falls, fl. 7.vii.1930, Hutchinson & Gillett 3425 (K).Botswana N 80 km north of Francistown, fr. 14.i.1960, Leach & Noel 27 (K; PRE; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Northern Province)
Euphorbia griseola subsp. griseola [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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