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(Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
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Contributor Text:
A. RADCLIFFE-SMITH
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. & Fr. Per.: More or less continuously throughout the year.
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Type:
Syntypes: S. Arabia, Yemen Arab Republic, Mawr [Mot] nr. Al Lulutyyah [Lohaja], also at “Hadie”, E. of Bayt al Fagih, 1763, Forsskal ss.nn. (C).
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Distribution:
Distribution: From the Canaries and N. Africa to Tropical Africa and eastwards to Central Asia and Northern India. Common in desert and semidesert, by roadsides and in gardens from near sea-level to 5000'/1525 m.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Jeffreys 4 is erroneously recorded by Stewart as Euphorbia humifusa Willd., a species of E. Europe and Central Asia. The Waziristan record (material not seen) is thus also suspect., Many Pakistan gatherings that have been determined as Euphorbia thymifolia are either referable to Euphorbia granulate or Euphorbia prostrate. The records for Euphorbia inaequilatera Send. are also almost certainly referable here.
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Map Location:
B-6 Mohmand/Khyber: Warsak, 15 May 1908, Sir A.H. Deane 109 (K); Peshawar: Peshawar, 17 Jun. 1965, K.H. Rechinger 31001 (K, W); C-6 North Waziristan: Khajuri Post, Blatter & Fernandez (fide Rechinger); Bannu: Bannu - Dera Ismail Than, 5 Apr. 1968, Y. Nasir 4629 (RAW); Dera Ismail Khan: Jandola, Fernandez (fide Rechinger); Tank, Williams (fide Rechinger); Mianwall: 6.5 km. Kala Bagh - Bannu, 26 Aug. 1971, Sultan-ul-Abedin & M. Qaiser 9311 (KUH); C-7 Attock: Dhok Pathan, 22 Mar. 1957, R.R. Stewart & E. Nasir, 27870 (RAW); Rawalpindi: Rawalpindi (Stewart); Sargodba: Sakesar, 31 Aug. 1902, Kabir in Drummond 14490 (K); D-4 Quetta-Pishin: Khanai, 10 May 1938, Val Pankash 16474 (RAW); Pishin, 16 Jul. 1957, E. Nasir 28460 (K, RAW); Quetta Valley, 23 May 1968, Zaffar Ali 4834 (RAW); Sibi: Ziarat, Crookshank 450 (K); 10 Jun. 1970, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1422 (KUH); 1.6 km. Ziarat - Chashama, 11 Sept. 1970, S.A. Farooqi & M. Qaiser 2418 (KUH); D-5 Zhob: Ft. Sandeman, 6 May 1897, Harsukh 20650 (K); Loralai: Loralai, 25 Jul. 1939, Mohindar Nath 2103 (RAW); D-7 Faisalabad (Lyallpur)/Shekhupura: Sangla Hill, 8 Mar. 1917; R.R. Stewart 1396 (K); E-1 Chagai: E. of Mirjaveh, 28 Mar. 1965, K. H. Rechinger 27253 (K, W); E-3 Kharan: Kharan, Hughes Buller 23206 (fide Reek); E-4 Kalat: Kalat, Blatter, Hallberg & McCann 139 (fide Rech.); Ab-i-gum, 12 Jul. 1957, E. Nasir s.n. (RAW); Mastung, 17 Jun. 1957, Jafri & Akbar 1748 (K); Mach (fide Stewart); Isplingi, A.H. Khan 680 (RAW); E-5 Sibi: Kumbhi, Bugti Country, 30 Jan. 1911, Jeffreys 4 (K); E-6 Dora Ghazi Khan: c. 10 km before Sakhi Samar on the way to Dera Ghazi Khan from Loralai, 17 Sept. 1970, M. Qaiser 2564 (KUH); Multan: Pirawala, 4 Dec. 1933, R.N. Parker 3295 (K); F-2 Makran: Ispikan, NE. of Mand, McCann 74 (fide Rech.): F-3 Kalat: 30-50 km. W. of Bela, 9 Apr. 1965, K.H. Rechinger 27620 (K, W); F-4 Las Bela: Las Bela, Hughes Buller 18706 (fide Roth.); ‘Baluchistan’, Stocks (fide Rech.); G-2 Makran: 17.5 km. Turbat - Awaran, 2 Apr. 1969, Dr. S.I. Ali, Dr. S.A. Farooqi & Sultan-ul-Abedin 1537 (KUH); G-2/3: Baluchistan coast, recd. Nov. 1880, C. Pierce s.n. (K); G-4 Thatta Dist. Haleji (? Dhora), 17 Dec. 1958, Ali 246 (RAW); Haleji (? Dandh) (idem); Karachi: Karachi [Karachee] to ‘Mugar Peer’, comm. Nov. 1879, W. Wykeham Perry s.n. (K); Mauripur, Jan. 1945, W.T. Stearn 10 (K); Karachi, 2 Sept. 1952, R.R. Stewart 24831a (BM, RAW); loc. idem, Jafri (fide Stewart); Cliffden (? Clifton), Karachi, 29 Aug. 1953, A. Rahman 25718 (BM, RAW); Drigh Road, 31 Jan. 1955, S.R.B. Rizvi 170 (KUH); Karachi University Campus, 10 Sept. 1968, Saida Qureshi s.n. (KUH).
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A rather variable densely pubescent to almost glabrous much-branched prostrate annual or perennial herb with stems to 20 cm long. Petioles 0.5 mm long. Leaf-blades obovate-oblong, 1-8 x 0.5-5 mm, rounded or emarginate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, entire or almost so, thick and slightly fleshy, rugulose when dry, glaucous. Stipules subulate, 0.5 mm long. Cyathia axillary, solitary. Glands transversely ovate, yellowish or ochreous, sometimes reddish, with unequal, subentire white or pink appendages. Fruits trigonous, keels carinate, 1.1 x 1.1 mm, smooth, either pubescent all over or else on the keels only, with simple hairs. Seeds narrowly ovoid-cylindric, quadrangular, 0.8 x 0.4 mm, irregularly foveolate-rugulose, pinkishgrey.
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