Family: Euphorbiaceae
Euphorbia dendroides
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 462 (1753).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Tree spurge.
Description:
Glabrous undershrub, stems up to 2 m, apparently dichotomously branched; leaves alternate, sessile, crowded, oblong-lanceolate, 25-65 x 3-8 mm, obtuse, mucronulate, dark-green; ray-leaves like the cauline but rather shorter and wider; raylet-leaves broadly rhombic, yellowish; pseudo-umbels of 5-8 dichotomously branched rays.
Cyathia terminal; glands suborbicular, orange, with irregularly lobed almost truncate appendages c. 2.5 mm long.
capsule depressed-globular, 3-lobed, 4-5 x 5-6 mm, valves laterally compressed, keeled on the back, smooth or nearly so; seed subglobose, laterally compressed, c. 3.5 mm long, black; caruncle conical, fleshy, yellow, scarcely elevated, not peltate.
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Image source: fig 401d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Fiori & Paoletti (1901) Iconographia florae Italicae, fig. 2604.
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: FR, EP, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE. Native to the Mediterranean region.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Sept.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Taxonomic notes:
Recorded by J. Black (1909) Naturalised flora of South Australia, p. 136, but not since collected.
Author:
Not yet available
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