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Euphorbia pfeilii
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Near bridge over Sitagane River, by road from Tuli to Hwali River bridge
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near bridge over Sitagane River, by road from Tuli to Hwali River bridge
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near bridge over Sitagane River, by road from Tuli to Hwali River bridge
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near bridge over Sitagane River, by road from Tuli to Hwali River bridge
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| Synonyms: |
Euphorbia anomala Pax Euphorbia glaucella Pax Euphorbia kwebensis N.E. Br. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Annual or short-lived perennial herb, up to 60 cm high. Stems hairless, somewhat woody at the base. Leaves mostly as floral bracts, opposite, Linear-lanceolate,up to 5.5 cm long but mostly much smaller; margin usually with a few minute teeth especially near the apex. Flowers axillary and in 3-branched umbels forking many times; primary rays branch-like up to 15 cm long. Bracts leaf-like. Cyathia subsessile, 1.7 × 2 mm; involucres cup-shaped, hairless or with a few short appressed hairs around the top; glands 4, elliptic; lobes 0.5 mm long, triangular, ciliate. Capsule c. 3.5 mm long, obtusely 3-lobed, usually sparsely covered with short appressed hairs, especially in the upper half, exserted on a curved pedicel.Seeds oblong-rectangular, flattened, grey with a distinctly verrucose surface. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | pfeilii: after Joachim Friedrich Graf von Pfeil (1857-1924), German geographer and plant collector in Namibia and South Africa. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zoutpansberg, South Africa. |
| Botswana distribution: | N |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Carter, S. & Leach, L.C. (2001). Euphorbiaceae: subfamily Euphorbioideae: tribe Euphorbieae Flora Zambesiaca 9(5) Pages 366 - 367. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 41. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 57. |
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