At Eflora of India the plant that has been identified as *Euphorbia dracunculoides* doesn't convince me as the description and the Illustration from Flora of China is quite different for this plant.
*Description from Flora of China: * * * *Euphorbia dracunculoides* Lamarck, Encycl. 2: 428. 1788. *Euphorbia lanceolata* Sprengel; *Tithymalus dracunculoides* (Lamarck) Klotzsch & Garcke. Herbs, annual or short-lived perennial, 10-40 cm tall. Root terete, single, 30-40 cm × 3-8 mm. Stem sometimes branched basally, 3-7 mm thick, branches ascending. Leaves alternate; stipules absent; petiole absent or nearly so; leaf blade linear-oblong, 1-3 cm × 2.5-4 mm, base truncate or subattenuate below, rounded higher up, margin entire, apex rounded or obtuse; lateral veins few, inconspicuous, at acute angle to midrib. Inflorescence an inconspicuous terminal few-rayed cyathium; primary involucral leaves similar to normal leaves, primary rays ca. 3, robust and ascending, dichotomous; cyathophylls 2, similar to normal leaves. Cyathium sessile; involucre broadly campanulate, 2-3 × 3-5 mm, lobes rounded; glands 4, pale brown, crescent-shaped, apex 2-horned, horns light green. Male flowers many, not exserted from involucre. Female flower: ovary exserted from cup, smooth, glabrous; styles free, persistent; style arms 2-lobed. Fruiting peduncle ca. 3 mm; capsule subglobose, ca. 3.5 × 3.5 mm, smooth or obscurely reticulate, glabrous. Seeds ovoid- terete, ca. 2.5 × 1.5-2 mm, gray or dark gray, adaxially striate; caruncle present, stipitate. Fl. Apr-Jul, fr. May-Aug. Illustration: http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=109354&flora_id=2 Tanay * * On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:36 AM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > *Euphorbia lathyris* Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 457. 1753. > > > > Some times spelled as *Euphorbia lathyrus* L., orth. var. > > > > Herbs, annual, erect, up to 1(-1.5) m tall. Rootstock a simple taproot, > slightly swollen in seedlings, up to more than 20 cm × 3-7 mm thick; lateral > roots thin and branched. Stem single, gray-green, smooth and glabrous. > Leaves opposite, decussate; stipules absent; petiole absent; leaf blade > linear-lanceolate, 6-15(-20) × 0.4-2.5 cm, glabrous, base ± clasping stem, > margin entire, apex acuminate or acute; midrib prominent adaxially, lateral > veins inconspicuous. Inflorescence a terminal pseudumbel, often compound, > eventually broad and lax; primary involucral leaves (2-)4 or 5(or 6), > slightly yellowish green, narrowly elliptic to ovate-elliptic, somewhat > unequal, margin entire, base rounded, primary rays (3 or)4 or 5; cymes > regularly many forked; cyathophylls 2, ovate-triangular, 3-8 × 2-4 cm, base > truncate to clasping, margin entire, apex acuminate or acute. Cyathium > subsessile; involucre subcampanulate, 2.5-4 × 2.5-3.5(-5) mm, lobes > triangular-oblong, less repanded or lobed; glands 4, dark brown, > transversely oblong-reniform with a club-shaped horn at each tip. Male > flowers many, exserted from involucre. Female flower exserted from cup; > ovary smooth, glabrous; styles free, slender and long, caducous; style arms > 2-lobed. Capsule trigonous-globose, ca. 10 × 13-17 mm, smooth, glabrous. > Seeds ovoid-globose to barrel-shaped, 5-8 × 4-6 mm, brown or gray-brown, > with black-brown spots on surface, sharply rugulose; caruncle ca. 1.5 mm > wide, yellowish, sessile, easily lost. Fl. Apr-Jul. 2*n* = 20*. > > > > Illustration: > http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=109318&flora_id=2 > > > > Images and further description: > http://www.hear.org/pier/species/euphorbia_lathyris.htm > > > > Regards > > Tanay > > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 040710GS1 Euphorbia from Kashmir. I find similar plant identified as E. >> dracunculoides at Flowers of India website, but having seen this species in >> Delhi, it is quite different with linear-lanceolate leaves, whereas this >> plant has leaves with much broader almost sessile leaf base. >> >> Habitat: Grown in pots, sometimes in shaded corners >> Habit: herbaceous plant, up to 70 cm tall >> Leaves: mostly opposite, sessile, nearly ovate with long acuminate apex. >> Inf: Axillary cyathium, nectaries semilunar, crescent shaped, ovary >> glabrous >> Fruit: nearly 1cm, subglobular, 3-lobed, with three additional depression >> lines, on on each lobe, glabrous, green >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Tanay Bose > +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) > 9830439691(Mobile) > > > -- Tanay Bose +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) 9830439691(Mobile) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. 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