Euphorbia gentilis N.E.Br.

Species

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Characteristics

Dioecious, dwarf, spineless, glabrous succulent, up to 100 mm tall, branches softly fleshy, mottled with purple, 3-6 mm thick. Leaves soon deciduous, sessile, spathulate, 1-3 mm long. Cyathia many, 1-6 terminating some branches, with ± spathulate bracts, occasionally pubescent, 2-3 mm diam., with 5 yellow-green glands. Capsule exserted on recurved, later erect pedicel, 3-4 mm diam., pubescent.
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Dwarf succulent, 75-150 mm high; unisexual, spineless, branching at base and rebranching above. Branches alternate, densely crowded above, 3-6 mm wide when dry, brittle at joints, internodes not tuberculate. Leaves absent or rudimentary. Flowers: involucres sessile or in subsessile cymes, clustered at ends of branches, glabrous outside; involucral glands with 5 subquadrate, ciliate lobes.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 0.09 - 0.13
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Soil texture 3-4
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 10 - 15
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
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Germination treatment soaking
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Distribution

Euphorbia gentilis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:346609-1
WFO ID wfo-0000962242
COL ID 3CNXG
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Synonyms

Tirucalia gentilis Euphorbia gentilis Euphorbia vaalputsiana Euphorbia gentilis subsp. gentilis Euphorbia gentilis subsp. tanquana