Published August 9, 2022 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Euphorbia tirucalli L.

  • 1. Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências Naturais da Universidade Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola. & E-mail: franciscacmonteiro @ hotmail. com; ORCID: https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2563 - 6761
  • 2. Centro de Botânica, Universidade Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola. & E-mail: esperancacosta @ yahoo. com
  • 3. Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências Naturais da Universidade Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola. & E-mail: xanguita 1 @ yahoo. com. br; ORCID: https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7939 - 6527
  • 4. LEAF - Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food, Associated Laboratory TERRA, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. & E-mail: jccosta @ isa. ulisboa. pt; ORCID: https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7619 - 840 X
  • 5. cE 3 c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. & E-mail: lmcatarino @ fc. ul. pt; ORCID: https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1261 - 9076 * Author for correspondence

Description

Euphorbia tirucalli L.

Multi-stemmed, succulent shrub, in wooded savannah and thicket.

C.N.: kisoma (kb).

Uses: medicinal.

Conservation: LC (IUCN 2017)

Notes

Published as part of Monteiro, Francisca, Costa, Esperança Da, Kissanga, Raquel, Costa, José Carlos & Catarino, Luís, 2022, An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola, pp. 1-67 in Phytotaxa 557 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.557.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6985699

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Euphorbiaceae
Genus
Euphorbia
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Malpighiales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
L.
Species
tirucalli
Taxon rank
species

References

  • IUCN. (2017) IUCN Red List of Threatened species. Vers. 3, May 2017. Available from: www. iucnredlist. org (accessed 10 December 2021).