| Prostrate Spurge |
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| File size | 248771 |
| Original date | 8/29/22 4:18 PM |
| Resolution | 4608 x 2128 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 4.05mm |
| Exposure time | 1/50s |
| Aperture | 1.78 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | vivo |
| Camera model | vivo 1915 |
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Botanical name: Euphorbia granulata Family: Euphorbiaceae (Castor family)
Synonyms: Euphorbia fragilis, Euphorbia tigridis, Euphorbia arillata
Synonyms: Euphorbia fragilis, Euphorbia tigridis, Euphorbia arillata
Prostrate Spurge is a prostrate annual or perennial
herb, a rather variable densely velvet-hairy to almost hairless plant.
Stems are up to 24 cm. Leaves are obovate-oblong or linear-oblong, 2-8
x 0.5-5 mm, rounded or notched at the tip, obliquely rounded at the
base, entire or almost so, thick and slightly fleshy, rough when dry,
leaf-stalks 0.5 mm; stipules subulate, 0.5 mm long. Cyathia are borne
in leaf-axils, solitary; glands transversely ovate, yellowish or
ochreous, sometimes reddish with unequal, nearly entire white or pink
appendages. Capsules are 1.5-2 mm diameter, trigonous, keels carinate,
smooth. This plant shows great variation in hairiness, leaf-shape and
size, life-cycle, and glandular appendages. Prostrate Spurge is native
to N. & E. Africa, SW & Central Asia to India.
| Identification credit: Tapas Chakrabarty, Tabish | Photographed in Imphal, Manipur. |
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