Euphorbia ankazobensis
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Euphorbia ankazobensis is a species of the genus milkweed ( Euphorbia ) in the family of the milkweed family(Euphorbiaceae).
description
The succulent Euphorbia ankazobensis forms shrubs with many shoots and moderate branching up to 50 centimeters in height or more. The stem-round branches are up to 1.5 centimeters thick. The egg-shaped leaves are in rosettes on the shoot ends. They are almost seated, 3.5 inches long and 1.5 inches wide. The upper side is blue-green, the underside lighter in color and a short tip is formed at the tip of the leaf. The 5 to 10 millimeter long stipule spines are narrow and thickened at the base. Straight stipule spines are red in color and later fall off.
Single cymes are formed that have a stalk about 1 centimeter long. The broadly egg-shaped cyathophylls spread up to 7 millimeters and are yellow-green in color. The cyathia are 3 millimeters in size and the elongated, touching nectar glands are greenish yellow in color. The spherical fruit reaches 7 millimeters in diameter.
Distribution and systematics
Euphorbia ankazobensis is endemic to Central Madagascar near Antananarivo . The species is on the IUCN Red List and is critically endangered.
The species was first described in 2000 by Werner Rauh and Siegfried Hofstätter . It is very similar to Euphorbia fianarantsoae .
swell
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Dicotyledons (dicotyledons) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3915-4 , pp. 112 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Succulentes. Number 3, p. 6, 2000 Monte-Carlo