Species Euphorbia burmanii
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Euphorbia:
Gk. eu- = well; phorbe = pasture or fodder; probably after Euphorbus, Greek physician to Juba II, King of Mauretania. Juba was educated in Rome and married the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. He was apparently interested in botany and had written about an African cactus-like plant from the slopes of Mount Atlas, which he had found or knew about, which was used as a powerful laxative. That plant may have been Euphorbia resinifera, and like all Euphorbias had a latexy exudate (milky emulsion from certain plants). Euphorbus had a brother named Antonius Musa who was the physician to Augustus Caesar in Rome. When Juba heard that Caesar had honoured his physician with a statue, he decided to honour his own physician by naming the plant he had written about after him.
Scientific name:
Unknown
Common names:
Steenbokmelkbos
Soetmelkbos
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Synonym of:
Unknown
Monoecious, much-branched shrublet, 15--100 cm; stems terete, greyish green to dark green, 3--5 mm diam., smooth. Leaves opposite, spathulate, 2--3 mm long, with subglobose, brownish stipules. Cyathia 2--4 mm diam., glands entire, pale green. June--Sept. Sandy to stony flats and slopes, NW, SW, KM, LB, SE (Namaqualand to E Cape).
Observations of Taxon
Euphorbia burmanii
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Name of observer:
Melloson Allen (Melloson)
Date observed:
05/01/2011 - 11:10pm
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