Euphorbia benthamii Hiern
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Backpackers and Overlanders Lodge, Twentydales Ext., Epworth, Harare.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Backpackers and Overlanders Lodge, Twentydales Ext., Epworth, Harare.
Photo: Mark Hyde
Mukuvisi Woodland, Harare
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Native |
Description:
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Annual herb to 1 m tall, sparsely covered with long spreading white hairs. Leaves: petiole to 2.5 cm long; lamina narrowly oblong, serrate with minute gland-tipped teeth on the margin. Cymes axillary and in 3-branched umbels. Bracts leaf-like. Cyathia sessile with cup-shaped involucres; glands 4, 1 × 1.5 mm, transversely elliptic; lobes ciliate. Capsule 4 × 5 mm, with long spreading hairs, barely exserted on a short pedicel, longitudinal ridges absent. |
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Habitat:
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Deciduous woodland, often near streams |
Altitude range: (metres) |
950 - 1500 m |
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Worldwide distribution:
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Angola, Namibia, Caprivi Strip, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Malawi |
Zimbabwe distribution:
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C,E,S |
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Spot characters:
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Images last updated: |
Saturday 5 March 2016 |
Literature:
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Carter, S. & Leach, L.C. (2001). Euphorbiaceae: subfamily Euphorbioideae: tribe Euphorbieae Flora Zambesiaca 9(5) Page 365.
Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 41.
Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 48.
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-23
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2023).
Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Euphorbia benthamii. https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=135760, retrieved 31 January 2023
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