A perennial woody based herb with erect or ascending stems, sometimes prostrate and branched, especially from the base. Leaves are entire, lower cauline leaves are alternate, oblong to oblong-linear or linear-lanceolate and obtuse or truncate; upper cauline leaves are acute, umbellate leaves are oblong-elliptic and floral leaves are smaller and ovate-triangular to suborbicular. Umbel rays are 3–5 and repeatedly forked. Inflorescence is a pedunculate cyathia enclosed in a campanulate involucre with ovate lobes. Fruit is a depressed-globose capsule, 3-lobed, smooth and glabrous, with ovoid seeds, laterally compressed, smooth and greyish.
Mareotic Sector, North Sinai.
Mediterranean Region, Sinai.
Coastal Sandy Soils.
Perennial.
Height: 20-60 cm
Euphorbia terracina, the Geraldton carnation weed, is a species of perennial herb in the family Euphorbiaceae. It has a self-supporting growth form and simple, broad leaves. Flowers are visited by Lipotriches brachysoma, Lipotriches natalensis, Lipotriches crassula, and Nomia bouyssoui.[1][2]
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Euphorbia terracina, the Geraldton carnation weed, is a species of perennial herb in the family Euphorbiaceae. It has a self-supporting growth form and simple, broad leaves. Flowers are visited by Lipotriches brachysoma, Lipotriches natalensis, Lipotriches crassula, and Nomia bouyssoui.
