Euphorbia barbicollis
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Euphorbia barbicollis is a species of the genus spurge ( Euphorbia ) in the family of Euphorbiaceae (Euphorbiaceae).
description
The succulent Euphorbia barbicollis forms perennial herbaceous plants with a few, approximately 5 millimeter thick sprouts from a bulbous, 12 centimeter long and 4 centimeter wide root . The climbing shoots are up to 1 meter long and are only slightly branched. They are about 2 millimeters thick, have few hairs and are ephemeral. The linear leaves are 35 millimeters long and 3 millimeters wide. They are succulent and sparsely hairy.
Individual cyathia are formed, which are about 7 millimeters in size and are almost sitting. The five elliptical nectar glands have two to four, up to 1.3 millimeters long appendages on the outer edges. At the base of each short stalk of the nectar glands there is a tuft of short hair. The elongated fruit is about 5 millimeters in size, is covered with hair and stands on a protruding and bent back stem that is up to 6 millimeters long. The elongated seed becomes 3 millimeters long and 2 millimeters wide. On the wrinkled surface of the seed there are a small number of large, flat warts. The seed appendage becomes 0.75 millimeters wide.
Distribution and systematics
Euphorbia barbicollis is common in northeast Somalia .
The species was first described in 1965 by Peter René Oscar Bally .
swell
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Dicotyledons (dicotyledons) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3915-4 , pp. 118 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Candollea Volume 20, pp. 37-39, 1965
Web links
- Description and distribution of the species in the African Plant Database
- Herbarium from the isotype of the species
- Species data at tolkin.org