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Prostrate Spurge |
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| Vernacular name | Poinsettia | |
| Scientific name | Euphorbia prostata L. | |
| Family | ||
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Herbs, annual, 15-19 cm tall, root-fibrous. Stems many from base, prostrate, usually light red or red, occasionally green or yellow-green, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. | |
| Leaves | Leaves opposite; stipules-triangular, petiole very short or sessile; leaf blade elliptic to obovate, adaxially green, sometimes with light red or red abaxially, margin entire or irregularly finely serrulate, apex rounded. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Female flower pedicellate, exserted from involucre; ovary sparsely pubescent on angles; styles nearly connate at base; smooth, glabrous except for white hairs along angles. | |
| Fruit/ seed | Seeds ovoid-tetragonal, ca. 0.9 ? 0.5 mm, yellow, each side with 6 or 7 transverse furrows; caruncle absent. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Moist places | |
| Flowering and fruiting | April -October | |
| Associated with | Upland flora | |
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