Code
EPHCH
Growth form
Broadleaf
Biological cycle
Annual
Habitat
Terrestrial
synonym | Anisophyllum chamaesyce (L.) Haw. |
synonym | Anisophyllum vaticanum Gand. |
synonym | Chamaesyce canescens (L.) Prokh. |
synonym | Chamaesyce canescens subsp. glabra (Roep.) Soják |
synonym | Chamaesyce canescens subsp. massiliensis (DC.) Soják |
synonym | Chamaesyce chamaesyce (L.) Hurus. |
synonym | Chamaesyce libassii (Lojac.) Giardina & Raimondo |
synonym | Chamaesyce massiliensis (DC.) Galushko |
synonym | Chamaesyce vulgaris Prokh. |
synonym | Chamaesyce vulgaris subsp. massiliensis (DC.) Benedí & Orell |
synonym | Euphorbia canescens L. |
synonym | Euphorbia chamaesyce subsp. canescens (L.) Holmboe |
synonym | Euphorbia chamaesyce subsp. massiliensis (DC.) Thell. |
synonym | Euphorbia chamaesyce var. canescens (L.) Sm. |
synonym | Euphorbia libassii Lojac. |
synonym | Euphorbia massiliensis DC. |
synonym | Euphorbia perforata Tineo ex Lojac. |
synonym | Euphorbia pinnulosa Lojac. |
synonym | Euphorbia prostrata Burch. ex Hemsl. |
synonym | Euphorbia reichenbachiana Lojac. |
synonym | Euphorbia vaticana Gand. |
synonym | Tithymalus chamaesyce (L.) Moench |
synonym | Tithymalus nummularius Lam. |
synonym | Xamesike palestina Raf. |
synonym | Xamesike vulgaris Raf. |
synonym | Xamesike xamobala Raf. |
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Global description
Adult plant
Euphorbia chamaesyce is an annual plant, rarely sub-perennial, with prostrate port, with indurated-woody taproot, with whitish latex. Stem glabrous or with variable pilosity, more or less reddish, very branched radiating, spread on the ground, reaching 30 cm length. Leaves simple, opposite, numerous, short-stalked, from 3 to 10 mm in diameter, broadly oval, with an asymmetrical base, finely toothed margin and rounded or broadly wedge-shaped apex. Presence of very small laciniate stipules at the base of the petiole. Flowers in isolated axillary cyathes, with very small involucre; glands yellowish or reddish, externally with a whitish appendage; staminal threads very short. Capsule tricoccous, short-stalked, globose, 1 mm in diameter, with keeled shells on the back, style bifid. Seed tetragonal-ovoid, 0.9-1.4 x 0.6-0.8 mm, transversely wrinkled, without caruncle.
Attributions | KAZI TANI Choukry |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Algeria: Euphorbia chamaesyce has a spring germination and flowers from April to September. Species which belongs to the post-vernal flora whose seeds do not mature before the end of June.
Attributions | KAZI TANI Choukry |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Euphorbia chamaesyce multiplies by seed.
Attributions | KAZI TANI Choukry |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Euphorbia chamaesyce is a C3 species.
Attributions | KAZI TANI Choukry |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Algeria: Euphorbia chamaesyce is a ruderal (wadi bed) and cereal growing species quite rare in annual and perennial crops and nurseries throughout the country. It has a preference for compacted and trampled clayey to silty soils. It is probably an Iranian-Turanic archaeophyte species that belongs to the post-vernal flora whose seeds do not ripen before the end of June.
Attributions | KAZI TANI Choukry |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Origin
Euphorbia chamaesyce is native to the Mediterranean-Western Iranian-Turanian region.
Algeria: Species rather common in all the country, but rare in the central and northern Sahara.
Attributions | KAZI TANI Choukry |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Local harmfulness
Algeria: Euphorbia chamaesyce is a minor "weed". Uncommon and not very abundant, it does not generally constitute a nuisance for the culture.
Attributions | KAZI TANI Choukry |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
Attributions | KAZI TANI Choukry |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT: https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=Euphorbia%2520chamaesyce
Attributions | KAZI TANI Choukry |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Malpighiales |
Family | Euphorbiaceae |
Genus | Euphorbia |
Species | Euphorbia chamaesyce L. |