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<emphasis id="449A60028B62FF881AC0FBEDFE42FBBE" bold="true" box="[136,430,1111,1135]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="299">Euphorbia pseudocontorta</emphasis>
Bruyns
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This new species differs from
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by the many 3- to 4-angled branches that arise from ground-level to form a low and relatively dense shrub and by the longer peduncles beneath the cymes and the lateral cyathia.
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Type:
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north-east of Molócuè
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(1538
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). (
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,
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Bisexual spiny glabrous succulent shrub 0.150.3 ×
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with many branches from similar stem, densely branched at ground level, with fibrous roots arising from base.
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ascending to ± prostrate, 100200 ×
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, 3- to 4- angled, not constricted into segments, smooth, pale grey-green with paler stripes between angles;
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fused into 3 or 4 angles, laterally flattened and truncate, projecting ±
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from branch, with spine-shields
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long,
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long and rounded below spines but remaining well separated from next, bearing 2 spreading initially purple-red (later grey) spines ±
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long;
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on tips of new tubercles towards apex of branches, 810 ×
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, erect, fleeting, ovatelanceolate, sessile, with small prickles ±
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long on either side at base.
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many per branch usually towards apex, each a solitary cyme in axil of tubercle, sessile, each cyme with 3 transversely disposed cyathia, central male, lateral 2 bisexual and developing later each on short peduncle 23 × ±
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, with 2 ovate bracts ± 2 ×
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subtending lateral cyathia;
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shallowly funnel-shaped, glabrous, ±
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broad (
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long below insertion of glands), with 5 pinkish red obovate lobes with deeply incised margins, grey-green variably suffused with red;
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5, transversely rectangular and contiguous,
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broad, dark yellow with red outer margins, spreading, inner margins slightly raised, outer margins entire and spreading;
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glabrous, red, bracteoles enveloping groups of males, with finely divided red tips, glabrous;
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3-angled, glabrous, green, raised on pedicel ±
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long; styles ±
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long, pinkish, branched to near base.
<emphasis id="449A60028B62FF881AC0F8F1FF33F8B2" box="[136,223,1867,1891]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="299">Capsule</emphasis>
±
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diam., obtusely 3-angled, reddish green, glabrous, nearly sessile.
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<emphasis id="449A60028B62FF881AF5F8D5FE53F856" bold="true" box="[189,447,1903,1927]" pageId="2" pageNumber="299">Distribution &amp; habitat</emphasis>
:
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<emphasis id="449A60028B62FF881BAAF8D5FCEEF856" box="[482,770,1903,1927]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="299">Euphorbia pseudocontorta</emphasis>
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is only known in the central province of
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, where it is found in shallow pockets of soil on low granitic domes at altitudes of
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500
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. Plants are common in shallow soils on otherwise fairly bare rocks.
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<emphasis id="449A60028B62FF881AF5F861FED9F822" bold="true" box="[189,309,2011,2035]" pageId="2" pageNumber="299">Discussion</emphasis>
:This new species is similar to
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<emphasis id="449A60028B62FF8818D4F866FCF8F822" box="[668,788,2012,2035]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="299">E. contorta</emphasis>
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, which occurs in shallow soil on granitic outcrops around the bases of larger hills some
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further to the north-west at elevations of
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<emphasis id="449A60028B62FF881E18F845FAC9F7C6" box="[1104,1317,2047,2071]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="299">Euphorbia contorta</emphasis>
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is sparingly branched, with the stem usually rising rather obliquely to
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or more and a few horizontal branches spreading from it along its length. The new species is densely branched from the base, with the stem not visible among the branches. In
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<emphasis id="449A60028B63FF891FDCFF7EFF0EFF2E" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="300">E. contorta</emphasis>
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the stem and branches are an unmarked dull grey and are (4)5- to 7-angled while in the new species they have a paler longitudinal patch between the angles and are 3- to 4-angled. Florally the two differ in the longer peduncles in
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<emphasis id="449A60028B63FF891FDCFEB6FEC2FE96" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="300">E. pseudocontorta</emphasis>
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, both in the peduncle beneath the cyme and in the peduncles beneath each of the lateral cyathia in the cyme.
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<emphasis id="449A60028B63FF891AF5FECDFE4CFE5E" bold="true" box="[189,416,375,399]" pageId="3" pageNumber="300">Conservation status</emphasis>
:Not threatened.
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<emphasis id="449A60028B63FF891AF5FE21FDF1FE62" bold="true" box="[189,541,411,435]" pageId="3" pageNumber="300">Additional specimen examined</emphasis>
:
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.
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:
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south of Alto Ligonha (1538CA),
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,
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,
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(BOL).
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