CHR 516830 – Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 516830
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
06 August 1998
Database record updated:
26 April 2016
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1995-05-10 (Verbatim: 10 May 1995)
Preferred name:
Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Euphorbiales
Family:
Euphorbiaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Ngatangiia
Verbatim locality:
Ngatangiia
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4922/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
10 May 1995
Start date:
1995-05-10
Country:
Cook Islands
Land District:
Rarotonga
Habitat:
Cultivated in garden frontage hedge, beneath trees.
Notes:
Shrub c. 2 m high, rather straggling habit with long flexuous branches. Leaves dark green above, glaucous beneath, petioles purple. Floral leaves with red petioles to 2.5 cm long; lamina to c. 12 x 5 cm long, ± broad elliptic, bright crimson. Glands 4-6 mm wide, yellow, slit-like concavity above. Flowers in dense rounded head 5-6 mm across, crimson. Anthers crimson. Fairly commonly grown.
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Country:
Unknown
Permissions
Project permits
Biocultural (BC) Notice
