Euphorbia pseudoapios Maire & Weiller, it is a short perennial herb, up to 10 (-20) cm; rootstock usually single, tuberous, napiform to sub rounded, c. 5 x 2.5 cm, woody, giving out several simple branches; branch leafy, herbaceous, terete, glabrous. Leaves alternate, obovate, cuneate below, with usually rounded apices, obsoletely mucronate, glabrous, entire or almost so. Umbels rays 3-5 in terminal ones with usually a few lateral ones also present; ray leaves like the cauline leaves, raylet-leaves smaller, yellowish-green. Cyathium obconical-campanulate, lobes ovate, obtuse, glabrous outside, villose inside; glands transversely oblong or oblong-linear. Capsules sub globose, verrucose with hemispherical or semi-ovoid verruce. Seeds smooth, with a subreniform caruncle.
Leave a Reply