Euphorbia maculata, Euphorbia nutans,
Spotted Spurge, Chamaesyce maculata,
Hebrew: חלבלוב נטוי, Arabic: الفربيون المموج

Scientific name:  Euphorbia maculata L.
Synonym name:  Euphorbia nutans Lag.
Common name:  Spotted Spurge, Chamaesyce maculata
Hebrew name:  חלבלוב נטוי
Arabic name:  الفربيون المموج
Plant Family:  Euphorbiaceae, חלבלוביים

Flores en Israel, Euphorbia maculata, Euphorbia nutans, Spotted Spurge, Chamaesyce maculata, חלבלוב נטוי

Life form:  Annual
Stems:  Up to 45cm long, 30cm tall, herbaceous, erect to ascending or reclining, branching, sparse pubescent, with milky sap, typically becoming red in strong sun
Leaves:  Opposite, entire, dentate or serrate
Inflorescence:  Single axillary cyathia
Flowers:  Green; white petaloid appendage and greenish gland extending from the rim of cyathium; ovary of the female flower covered with hairs
Fruits / pods:  Capsule 3-sided, 3-locular, glabrous; one seed per locule
Flowering Period:  August, September
Habitat:  Cultivared weeds
Distribution:  Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Shrub-steppes
Chorotype:  American
Summer shedding:  Ephemeral

Euphorbia maculata, Euphorbia nutans, Spotted Spurge, Chamaesyce maculata, חלבלוב נטוי


Derivation of the botanical name:
Euphorbia, Εὔφορβος, Euphorbus, after the Numidian physician Euphorbus, physician to Juba II, King of Numidia and Mauretania, about the end of the first century BCE. In classical Greek ευφορβοσ (euphorbos) means well fed.
maculata, maculo, to spot, stain, pollute, defile; spotted.
nutans, nodding.
Chamaesyce, Greek, chamai, on the ground, lowly, creeping; sykon, "fig" (an oblique reference to the shape of the capsules).
  • The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
  • The standard author abbreviation Lag. is used to indicate Mariano Lagasca y Segura (1776 – 1839, a Spanish botanist, writer and doctor.
Inflorescence definition Cyathium: a cup-shaped involucre bearing several minute stamens (male flowers) and a pistillate flower consisting of an ovary on a long stalk (pedicel). The rim of the cyathium often bears one or more nectar glands and petaloid appendages; this feature is present in every species of the genus Euphorbia but nowhere else in the plantkingdom.

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