Euphorbia aleppica L. Aleppo spurge

Euphorbia aleppica L. - Aleppo spurge

Scientific Description:

Minutely papillose glaucous annual to 40 cm. Stems usually much-branched at base. Lower cauline leaves densely imbricate, linear-setaceous, 5−45 × 0.2−1 mm, acute, entire; upper cauline leaves and ray-leaves linear-oblanceolate, 20−50 × 1−8 mm. Raylet-leaves falcate-lanceolate to trullate or ovate-rhombic, 5−30 × 3−13 mm, entire or irregularly toothed, rounded or cuneate. Rays (2−)3−5, up to 5−8 times dichotomous; axillary rays 0−15. Glands long-horned. Fruit trilobate, 2.5 mm diam., finely granulate. Seeds ovoid-subglobose, subtetragonous, 1.3 mm, minutely tuberculate, pale grey, with minute readily deciduous caruncle.

 

Flowering time: (April−)May−September.

Habitat: Dry stony slopes, serpentine hills, steppe, streamsides, fields and roadsides, 150−1350 m.

 

Reference:

Radcliffe-Smith A (1982). Euphorbia aleppica L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 600.

Public Description:

Euphorbia aleppica, known as “aleppo spurge”, is native to Mediterranean region, from Tunisia to Corsica and Malta, Türkiye, Palestine, Crimea, Caucasus, Northern Iraq, Western Iran. It is a herbaceous annual plant, and grows up to 40 cm in length. It blooms between May and September and is found in dry stony slopes, serpentine hills, steppe, streamsides, fields and roadsides.

 

References:

Anonymous 1 (2015). http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=8351, Accessed date: 29.11.2015.

Anonymous 2 (2018). http://www.maltawildplants.com/EUPH/Euphorbia_aleppica.php/, Accessed date: 26.02.2018.

Öztekin M (2012). Euphorbia L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 414–424.