Euphorbia ocellata

Species of flowering plant

Euphorbia ocellata

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Malpighiales
Family:  | Euphorbiaceae
Genus:  | Euphorbia
Species:  |

E. ocellata

Binomial name
Euphorbia ocellata

Durand & Hilg.

Synonyms

Chamaesyce ocellata

Euphorbia ocellata is a species of Euphorbia known by the common name Contura Creek sandmat. It is native to the southwestern United States where it grows in many types of habitats. This is a small annual herb with pairs of oblong to lance-shaped leaves, each leaf up to about 1.5 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a cyathium only 2 millimeters wide. It consists of petal-like appendages surrounding the actual flowers, each with a round nectar gland at its base. The appendages are sometimes absent. The flowers include one female flower ringed by up to 60 male flowers. The fruit is a lobed, spherical capsule less than 3 millimeters wide.

There are three subspecies. One, the Stony Creek spurge or Rattan's sandmat (ssp. rattanii), is endemic to the northern Sacramento Valley of California.

## External links[edit]

* Jepson Manual Treatment
* USDA Plants Profile
* Photo gallery

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q5410506
* Wikispecies: Euphorbia ocellata
* Calflora: 13192
* CoL: 3CPZQ
* FNA: 250101592
* GBIF: 3068623
* GRIN: 456143
* iNaturalist: 473570
* IPNI: 101785-2
* ITIS: 28110
* NCBI: 1759695
* Open Tree of Life: 3912178
* Plant List: kew-81192
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:101785-2
* Tropicos: 12802120
* WFO: wfo-0000963676

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