Euphorbia pachypodioides
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Euphorbia pachypodioides is a species of the genus milkweed ( Euphorbia ) in the family of the milkweed family(Euphorbiaceae).
description
The succulent Euphorbia pachypodioides forms small shrubs up to 50 centimeters in height. These stand on a small, cylindrical trunk that is 5 centimeters in diameter. The leaves, which stand in clusters at the tips of the shoots and are almost sessile, are lanceolate and up to 12 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide. The upper side of the leaf is green, the underside is colored red-violet. After the leaves have fallen at the end of the growing season, leaf scars are left on the shoot in 8 to 12 spiral rows. The transient stipule spines have a widened base and are up to 1.5 centimeters long.
The inflorescence consists of multiple cymes that appear at the shoot tips. They are forked up to about 6 and stand on peduncles up to 8 centimeters long. The upright cyathophylls are up to 5 millimeters in size and envelop the almost sedentary cyathium . The purple cyathium is about 2.5 millimeters in diameter and the nectar glands are yellowish in color. The sitting ovary is bluntly lobed and purple in color.
Distribution and systematics
Euphorbia pachypodioides is endemic to the north of Madagascar .
The species was first described in 1942 by Pierre L. Boiteau . A synonym for Euphorbia pachypodioides Boiteau is Euphorbia antankara Leandri .
swell
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Dicotyledons (dicotyledons) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3915-4 , pp. 182 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bulletin de l'Académie Malgache Neue Serie 24, p. 87, 1942
Web links
- Photo of sprout and leaves on flickr.com