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Euphorbia chamaesyce

Species of flowering plant

Summary

Species of flowering plant

Euphorbia chamaesyce, is an annual plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is native to North Africa, Europe and Asia.

Description

A mat-forming annual Euphorbia, hairy or hairless, with oblique-based leaves. Fruits, 2 mm, are covered with projecting hairs (not just at the edges), or no hairs, bumpless. The leaves are weakly toothed or toothless, to 7(11) x 4.5(6) mm, leaf tips not pointed, slightly to rather greyish (glaucous) on 1 mm stalks. 'Flower' effect is formed of small but prominent white/pinkish appendages to the rounded yellowish/reddish floral glands. Seeds 1.2 mm, ovoid-quadrangular, irregularly tuberculate-rugulose, pale greyish.

In Europe similar plants are the other mat-forming Euphorbia, of which the fruit if hairy is the best distinguisher.

Subspecies as Flora Europaea has them -

ssp chamaesyce - hairless or pubescent, leaves smaller (

ssp massiliensis (DC.) Thell. - villous, leaves larger (to 10 mm), elongated, finely toothed (serrulate), tip rounded. Petal-like appendages to glands more than twice the gland in width (more prominent than the gland), edge often 3-lobed.

Sources: Flora Europaea, Flora of Turkey

Habitat

Europe: Open habitats.

Turkey: Rocky hillsides, scree, gravel plains, saline and sandy soils, streamsides, lake shores, disturbed habitats, 0–1600 m.

References

References

  1. "Plants of the World Online (Map)".
  2. Tutin. "Flora Europaea, vol. 2".
  3. Davis. "Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vol. 7".
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