Euphorbia akmanii

Euphorbia akmanii

Pubescent robust perennial to 105 cm tall, flowering stems biennial. Indumentum simple,  hairs unicellular. Cauline leaves of first year’s growth petiolate, elliptic to oblanceolate, 2–9 × 1–2.2 cm, apex subacute or acute, mucronulate, margin entire, base attenuate; second year’s cauline leaves petiolate-subsessile, elliptic, 6–12.5 × 2–3.5 cm, apex subacute or acute, mucronulate, margin entire, base attenuate; ray-leaves sessile, lanceolate to ovate, 3.5–9.5 × 1.5–4 cm, apex subacute or subobtuse, mucronulate, base tapered or rounded. Raylet-leaves 4–9 cm across. Rays 3–5, once or twice dichotomous; axillary rays absent. Cyathial lobes oblong, densely pubescent, glands 4, gland appendages deeply laciniate, greenish to white. Ovary densely pubescent, 3-locular; styles 3, connate at the base, stigmas bifid. Fruit pedicellate, 6 × 7 mm, ovoid, strongly trilobed, granulose, evenly to densely pubescent. Seeds ovoid, carunculate, 3 × 2.3–2.5 mm , testa smooth, greyish; caruncle small. conical, yellowish.

Endemic.

 

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