Species Euphorbia mauritanica
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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.
Etymology of mauritanica:
From the Latin Mauritanica / Mauritania the country in northwest Africa which is now Algeria and Morocco, and from where the 'moors' came from
Scientific name:
Euphorbia mauritanica Webb ex J. Gay
Etymology applies to:
Common names:
Beesmelkbos
Geelmelkbos
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Protologue:
Hist. Nat. Iles Canaries 3(2), 3: 250 (1847)
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Year published:
1847
Much-branched shrub to 2 m; stems terete, 3--6 mm diam., bright green. Leaves sessile, 8--15 2--5 mm, lanceolate, deciduous. Cyathia usually in terminal cymes with subsessile male surrounded by 5--7 bisexual cyathia, 7--15 mm diam., glands entire, yellow. May--Oct. Flats and stony slopes, NW, SW, KM, LB, SE (widespread in southern Africa).
Observations of Taxon
Euphorbia mauritanica
Name of observer:
Hilda Mason (David)
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Euphorbia mauritanica
Name of observer:
Alma Möller & Rolf Becker (David)
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Euphorbia mauritanica
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Mannheimer, Maggs-Kölling, Kolberg or Rügheimer (David)
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Euphorbia mauritanica
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Mannheimer, Maggs-Kölling, Kolberg or Rügheimer (David)
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Euphorbia mauritanica
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
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