Species Euphorbia striata
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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 striata:
striped, from Latin striatus 'provided with channels or grooves'
Scientific name:
Euphorbia striata Thunb.
Common names:
Melkgras
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Synonym status:
Monoecious shrublet to 50 cm, with wiry stems from woody base. Leaves ascending, linear-lanceolate, sessile, acuminate, 15--40 cm long. Flower clusters in lax panicles, floral glands crescent-shaped. Mainly Sept.--Nov. Sandy slopes and flats in fynbos and grassland, SE (Humansdorp to Mpumalanga).
Observations of Taxon
Euphorbia striata
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Name of observer:
Auriol Batten (David)
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Euphorbia striata
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
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Euphorbia striata
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Barbra Jeppe (David)
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Euphorbia striata
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Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
20/11/2012 - 1:45pm
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Euphorbia striata
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Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
21/11/2010 - 12:14pm
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