Euphorbia condylocarpa
| Euphorbia condylocarpa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Genus: | Euphorbia |
| Species: | E. condylocarpa
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| Binomial name | |
| Euphorbia condylocarpa | |
Euphorbia condylocarpa is a plant species in the genus Euphorbia.
Description
[edit]Medium (10–35 cm) hairless perennial, leaves strongly eared at the base, obtuse to subacute at the tip, margins serrate or toothless, stalks 0 or short. The capsules are relatively large (4–5.5(6) mm) rather spherical with low wide warts on the three lobes. Seeds 3-3.5 mm, smooth, dark brown, with yellowish 0.5 mm appendage. Mar-Jun (Turkey) Apr-May (Iran). The eastern forms have rather dense heads of flowers and more discernably-toothed leaves, but the Turkish forms are more open and effusely flowered with obscure leaf teeth and were originally distinguished as E. cardiophylla Boiss. & Heldr. but now merged into E. condylocarpa. ([2] mostly, and [3] &.[4])
Similar species include E. apios (leaves uneared), E. dimorphocaulon (flowering stems autumn, c. leafless, vegetative stems spring), E. platyphyllos (annual to 1m, often hairy, fruit 2.5–3 mm).[3]
Habitat
[edit]Turkey: Open Pinus forest, Abies cilicica forest, Quercus scrub, rocky slopes, screes, steppe, field margins, 20–2100 m.[3]
Iran: Mountain slopes, oak forests, meadows, rocky slopes and steppe forests on limestone, at 1500–2500 m.[2]
Range
[edit]Iran, Iraq, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Turkey (PoWo Map).
Phytochemistry
[edit]The plant contains the flavonol trifolin.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Euphorbia condylocarpa on eol.org
- ^ a b "Synopsis of Euphorbia subgen. Esula sect. Helioscopia (Euphorbiaceae) in Iran with the description of Euphorbia mazandaranica sp. nov" (PDF).
- ^ a b c Davis. Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vol. 7.
- ^ E. Boissier. Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium Novarum no. 12, p. 107.
- ^ Trifolin from Euphorbia condylocarpa. Yu. V. Roshchin, Chemistry of Natural Compounds, Volume 13, Number 4, pages 481-482, doi:10.1007/BF00565849