Euphorbia mossambicensis (Klotzsch & Garcke) Boiss.

Much-branched prostrate annual herb, with branches to 35 cm. long, the upper surface covered with short, adpressed hairs, the lower surface glabrous.. Leaves obovate, to 14 × 8 mm., base very obliquely rounded, apex rounded and entire, obscurely toothed or minutely apiculate, glabrous or rarely with a few scattered hairs around the margin; petiole to 0.5 mm. long; stipules free, linear to 0.4 mm. long, sometimes 2–3-toothed at the broader base.. Cyathia solitary on peduncles 0.5–1 mm. long, terminal and pseudoaxillary on short leafy shoots, ± 1.25 × 1.25 mm., with cup-shaped involucres; glands 4, transversely elliptic, to almost 1 mm. wide but usually much less, reddish, with distinct white or pinkish lobed appendages, to 0.6 × 1.5 mm.; involucral lobes minute, triangular with ciliate margins.. Male flowers: bracteoles laciniate; stamens 1.25 mm. long.. Female flower: ovary pedicellate; styles minute (0.3 mm. long), erect, bifid to halfway.. Capsule exserted on a reflexed pedicel to 3 mm. long, acutely 3-lobed with truncate base, 1.6 × 1.6 mm., usually glabrous, occasionally with a few long spreading hairs.. Seeds ovate-conical, sharply 4-angled, 0.9 × 0.5 mm., pinkish brown, with a few very obscure ridges and grooves.. Fig. 78/3.