Euphorbia daviesii E.A.Bruce

Glabrous perennial herb with a woody rootstock ± 1 cm. thick, producing numerous usually simple annual stems, erect to 30 cm.. Leaves sessile, slightly fleshy, oblanceolate, to 2.5 × 1 cm., apex acute to ± obtuse, apiculate, margin entire.. Cymes occasionally axillary, usually in terminal 3–7-branched umbels, with primary rays to 3 cm. long, forking ± 4 times; bracts sessile, often tinged purplish, ± deltoid, to 1.5 × 1.5 cm., base subcordate, apex obtuse to rounded, apiculate.. Cyathia sessile, 3 × 3.5 mm., with cup-shaped involucres; glands 4, rarely 5 on cyathia developing all ♂ flowers, spreading, transversely oblong, 1.5 × 2–2.5 mm., outer margin entire to shallowly sinuate, with 2 minute horns, yellow-orange; involucral lobes rounded, 1 mm. long, apex shallowly 2-lobed, margin ciliate.. Male flowers many: bracteoles ligulate, apices ciliate; stamens 4 mm. long.. Female flower: styles 1.5 mm. long, joined at the base, spreading, bifid for 1/3.. Capsule exserted on a pedicel to 6 mm. long, 3-lobed, 4 × 4.5 mm.. Seeds ovoid, 3 × 2–4 mm., smooth, grey speckled with brown; caruncle cream, 0.5 mm. across.