Euphorbia dracunculoides, Lam.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 222

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scientific name

Euphorbia dracunculoides
status

 

63. E. dracunculoides Lam. View in CoL View at ENA , Encycl. Méth. Bot. 2: 428 (1788).

Glabrous annual up to 10 cm, often much-branched from the base, and with 0-6 axillary rays. Leaves 4-15 x 1-4-5 mm, obovate to linear-spathulate, often 2- to 6-toothed at the apex. Ray- and raylet-leaves smaller than the cauline leaves, variable in shape. Rays (2-)3, up to 4 times dichtomous. Capsule 2-5 x 2-8 mm, shallowly sulcate, smooth. Seeds 1 -5 mm, ovoid, grey with white conical tubercles. Stony ground. S.E. Spain {Cabo de Gata, Prov. Almeria). Hs.

This species is represented in Europe only by subsp. inconspicua (Ball) Maire , Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afr. Nord 20: 202 (1929) { E. glebulosa var. almeriensis Lange ). The typical subspecies occurs throughout most of the drier tropics and sub­ tropics of the Old World.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Malpighiales

Family

Euphorbiaceae

Genus

Euphorbia

Loc

Euphorbia dracunculoides

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981
1981
Loc

E. dracunculoides

Lam. 1788: 428
1788
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