CHR 515723 – Euphorbia L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 515723
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
09 October 1998
Database record updated:
30 January 2012
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Chamaesyce hypericifolia (L.) Millsp.aff.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1998-02-05 (Verbatim: 5 Feb 1998)
Preferred name:
Euphorbia L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Euphorbiales
Family:
Euphorbiaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Tongatapu, Nuku'alofa, Vuna Road, by ferry wharf
Verbatim locality:
Tongatapu, Nuku'alofa, Vuna Road, by ferry wharf
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 1061/T
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
19 Nov 1997
Start date:
1997-11-19
Country:
Tonga
Abundance:
Common
Habitat:
Waste ground near culvert running into the sea.
Abundance:
Common
Notes:
Small semi-prostrate herbs with fairly stout rootstocks. Leaves glaucous beneath, dull dark green above. Capitula 1-1.5 mm across; gland appendages white, much > glands, rounded. Seed 1.1-1.2 mm long, subrectangular but narrowed at distal end, 2-3 transverse ribs. Fairly common locally in this part of Nuku'alofa. Habit quite different from typical Chamaesyce hypericifolia elsewhere on Tongatapu but like CHR 282594 from Tutuila, Samoa.
Duplicates
BISH:
Direction:
Sent
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