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Euphorbia knuthii subsp. knuthii [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 knuthii subsp. knuthii [family EUPHORBIACEAE], —Leach in J. S. African Bot. 39: 20, photo fig. 12 (1973).
Information
Habit strongly rhizomatous, with rhizomes producing tubers to 12 × 5 cm, and often with a number of plantlets arising at some distance from the parent plant; branches to 35 cm long, 3–4(5)-angled; cymes often forking several times.
Habitat
Floodplain grassland and vleis
Range
Distribution is centred around Baía de Maputo extending westwards into Mpumalanga and southwards into KwaZulu-Natal
Altitude range
25–200 m.
200
25
Distribution
Mozambique M 21 km north of Moamba, fl. 29.ix.1963, Leach & Bayliss 11749 (K; LISC; PRE; SRGH); 22.5 km north of Catuane, fl. 14.x.1963, Leach & Bayliss 11936 (K; LMA; PRE; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal)
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 knuthii subsp. knuthii [family EUPHORBIACEAE], —Leach in J. S. African Bot. 39: 20, photo fig. 12 (1973).
Information
Habit strongly rhizomatous, with rhizomes producing tubers to 12 × 5 cm, and often with a number of plantlets arising at some distance from the parent plant; branches to 35 cm long, 3–4(5)-angled; cymes often forking several times.
Habitat
Floodplain grassland and vleis
Range
Distribution is centred around Baía de Maputo extending westwards into Mpumalanga and southwards into KwaZulu-Natal
Altitude range
25–200 m.
200
25
Distribution
Mozambique M 21 km north of Moamba, fl. 29.ix.1963, Leach & Bayliss 11749 (K; LISC; PRE; SRGH); 22.5 km north of Catuane, fl. 14.x.1963, Leach & Bayliss 11936 (K; LMA; PRE; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal)
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 knuthii subsp. knuthii [family EUPHORBIACEAE], —Leach in J. S. African Bot. 39: 20, photo fig. 12 (1973).
Information
Habit strongly rhizomatous, with rhizomes producing tubers to 12 × 5 cm, and often with a number of plantlets arising at some distance from the parent plant; branches to 35 cm long, 3–4(5)-angled; cymes often forking several times.
Habitat
Floodplain grassland and vleis
Range
Distribution is centred around Baía de Maputo extending westwards into Mpumalanga and southwards into KwaZulu-Natal
Altitude range
25–200 m.
200
25
Distribution
Mozambique M 21 km north of Moamba, fl. 29.ix.1963, Leach & Bayliss 11749 (K; LISC; PRE; SRGH); 22.5 km north of Catuane, fl. 14.x.1963, Leach & Bayliss 11936 (K; LMA; PRE; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal)
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