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Most climbers in Euphorbiaceae are twiners (i.e., Bia, Dalechampia, Omphalea, Platygyna, Plukenetia, Romanoa, Tragia and Zuckertia); the remaining genera (i.e., Acidocroton, Croton, Euphorbia, Mabea, and Manihot) are scramblers that climb by growing over the surrounding vegetation.
15 genera and ~168 species that occur in a wide range of habitats, including moist, wet or dry. forests, scrublands, savannas, and open disturbed biomes but most diverse below 1,500 m of. elevation. Diagnostics: Recognized by their alternate, stipulate, simple, lobed to compound leaves, usually.
The family Euphorbiaceae is the fifth-largest flowering plant family [8] and has about 7,500 species [9] organised into 300 genera, [8] 37 tribes, and three subfamilies: Acalyphoideae, [8] Crotonoideae and Euphorbioideae. [10] Amongst the oldest fossils of the group include the permineralised fruit Euphorbiotheca deccanensis from the ...
- Euphorbiaceae, Juss.
- Malpighiales
Although species of the family grow throughout the world, except in cold alpine or arctic regions, most of them are found in temperate or tropical regions. The family consists of annual and perennial herbs and woody shrubs or trees as well as a few climbers. Physical description. tread-softly. Tread-softly (Cnidoscolus stimulosus).
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Jul 17, 2021 · Abstract. The aim of this review is to summarize all the compounds identified and characterized from Euphorbia characias, along with the biological activities reported for this plant. Euphorbia is one of the greatest genera in the spurge family of Euphorbiaceae and includes different kinds of plants characterized by the presence of milky latex.
- Antonella Fais, Giovanna Lucia Delogu, Sonia Floris, Benedetta Era, Rosaria Medda, Francesca Pintus
- 10.3390/plants10071468
- 2021
- Plants (Basel). 2021 Jul; 10(7): 1468.
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Chapters and Articles. Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: Eudicots. Michael G. Simpson, in Plant Systematics (Second Edition), 2010. Euphorbiaceae. Spurge family (after Euphorbus, physician to the king of Mauritania, 1st century). 218–245 genera/ca. 6300 species. ( Figure 8.35) Sign in to download full-size image. FIGURE 8.35.
Oct 10, 2014 · Regional intensification of this aridification occurred on all continents in the late Miocene through the Pliocene and is thought to have advanced the relatively rapid development of modern arid ecosystems and tropical grasslands (Cerling et al. 1993, 1997; Arakaki et al. 2011; Pound et al. 2012 ), due to a confluence of global atmospheric chang...
