Botanical name:Euphorbia granulataFamily:Euphorbiaceae (Castor family) Synonyms: Euphorbia fragilis, Euphorbia tigridis, Euphorbia arillata
Prostrate Spurge is a prostrate annual or perennial
herb, a rather variable densely velvet-hairy to almost hairless plant.
Stems are up to 24 cm. Leaves are obovate-oblong or linear-oblong, 2-8
x 0.5-5 mm, rounded or notched at the tip, obliquely rounded at the
base, entire or almost so, thick and slightly fleshy, rough when dry,
leaf-stalks 0.5 mm; stipules subulate, 0.5 mm long. Cyathia are borne
in leaf-axils, solitary; glands transversely ovate, yellowish or
ochreous, sometimes reddish with unequal, nearly entire white or pink
appendages. Capsules are 1.5-2 mm diameter, trigonous, keels carinate,
smooth. This plant shows great variation in hairiness, leaf-shape and
size, life-cycle, and glandular appendages. Prostrate Spurge is native
to N. & E. Africa, SW & Central Asia to India.
Identification credit: Tapas Chakrabarty, Tabish
Photographed in Imphal, Manipur.
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